ext_18484 ([identity profile] stevemb.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] filkertom 2008-08-25 01:32 pm (UTC)

"However, you're giving the government the ability to force you to choose between employment and your religion."

It's called "life". If you're an observant Jew and the best jobs around require working on Saturday, or you're an observant Muslim and the best jobs around are at the brewery, well, it sucks to be you. That doesn't mean that the government should give you special privileges (and the ability to not do your job and get paid anyway is a pretty big honking special privilege).

"To force people to provide procedures to which they are absolutely opposed...."

Well, then, it's a good thing that the United States took care of that as of 6 December 1865.

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