lolgaxe wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Which means that the government is effectively forcing people to pay for contraceptive use by others.
You don't seem to have too much problem with the government forcing people to pay for ***** health, but yeah. White male Christian etc etc.
Um... Of course I have a problem with it. It's why I keep saying that we shouldn't be mandating coverage
at all. I've only said like 15 times that this really shouldn't even be about religious exemptions. We should all be exempt because the government should not have the power to force us to purchase something we don't want to buy. Period. It should not matter what my reasons are for not wanting to pay for something, I should always have the freedom to make that choice for myself.
Sadly, the court ruled differently, so we're left with the even more absurd cases involving religious objections. But, again, this should not be required. I should be able to just say "I don't want to pay for that", and that should be the end of it. Requiring some special reason is absurd, and puts the government even more in the position of choosing which reasons are good and which are not. Which is itself wrong. So if I'm a religious person I can decide to not pay for X, or Y, or Z, but if I'm not, I can't? Who gets to decide this? Who decides if I'm really religious, or just pretending so I can pay for less stuff?
This is what I've been talking about when I keep saying that the longer we continue trying to keep the mandates legal, the more ridiculous the arguments for and against will become. There's no way for the government to actually arbitrate this. Unfortunately, we have some who think it can, and thus we have to travel down this stupid rabbit hole until hopefully they come to their senses. And yeah, I've been saying this all along. It's why I keep coming back to the "they shouldn't have allowed the mandates in the first place".