or, to phrase it in more constitutional terms, privacy vs free speech. And freedom of religion -- they sort of overlap here if spending money is speech these days. The right not to be compelled to spend my money in ways prohibited by my religion, vs. the right not to be compelled to do jump through pointless gender-specific hoops to get medical care.
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> it's the only thing approaching a valid argument on the other side of the >> issue, Sam. Valid argument, meet Sam, Sam meet valid argument. Some >> Catholic institutions say they should not have to pay to include >> contraceptives in coverage they are funding for their students and/or >> employees, since their religious beliefs say that contraception is wrong. >> Geez. You are making me do all the work here. Of course, it hasn't been >> demonstrated that it costs more to cover contraception, but hey, there's a >> First Amendment claim that isn't completely laughable. You're welcome. >> Anyway, that has all the makings of a supreme court case, eventually -- the >> right to not be messed with vs the right to believe that women do not have >> a right to not be messed with. Anyway, getting back to Fluke, none of that >> applies to student insurance at Georgetown if it is true that Georgetown >> doesn't subsidize it at all. On what basis would Georgetown have a First >> Amendment claim? PT is right. Either come off auto-pilot or STFU for a >> while, geez. >> > > >> >> > >> I don't see how you can construe a First Amendment right to dictate >> health >> >> care you aren't paying for. >> > >> > wa? >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347947 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
