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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get why Catholics are so upset about the possibility of indirectly financially supporting someone else using birth control.   Should pacifists be allowed to opt out of income tax because a very large portion of it goes to pay for military spending?  If you live in a community (or a country) you have to have some degree of tolerance for other people's lives, and it seems the approach of the new rules is a reasonable compromise-- within your own religious organization you can do what you want, but when you are operating universities and hospitals then you should follow the same rules everyone else does.[/quote]
The central premise of the article - which almost openly states it - and the position in general is that articles of religious faith should be honored to the same degree as reasoned conclusions. Of course, the author and others never look at the fact that they only apply that to Christian, or at most major, religions. I.e., they'll tell us what's a legitimate article of faith and what isn't.

There's a well-known case of some native Americans arguing for the right to smoke peyote as part of traditional rituals. Guess which way that went.[/quote]

That would change the whole tenor of this argument, wouldn't it, if you substituted Islamic group for Catholic group?  [/quote]
The easy test under our Constitution: How would this case go if it were the Church of Satan? Start asking that question, and you'll see the Christian bias in our courts and elsewhere.[/quote]

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