Re: [OT] Obama has a tiger by the tail.

On 2012-02-11 20:23:14 +0000, Bart Goddard <goddardbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Tony complained that the government was trying to force the Catholic
church into providing contraception (or abortions, or whatever), and
I'm saying that the government no more forces them to provide
contraception than it forces them to open abortion clinics or sponsor
Formula-1 racing. These things always have been and always will
remain optional.

There are two things wrong with your argument. Second,
if you had a Stop-N-Rob and didn't want to sell alcohol
because of your religion, but the state insisted that you
sell alcohol because it was perfectly legal to make,
distribute, sell and consume it, you'd bitch your libertarian
ass off.

Yeah. The main fault of my argument is that the hospital/orphanage/stop&rob/abortion-clinic, etc. is already in place.

Sort of like how, when I =took= this job, smoking in my private office with the door close was perfectly legal. Now that I've got some investment in the job, they want to change the rules!


First, my point above: When arguing about whether some law is a good (or right or moral or constitutional) law, then it's very bad logic to use the fact that it's a law to justify itself.

Oh, suddenly we don't allow circular arguments on ASC?!

Fine, =be= that way! ;)

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Seriously, though -- while I still maintain that nothing requires the Catholic church to operate a hospital, I agree that there's a lot of infrastructure cost there, and it's not-nice of The State to go and change the rules now that all that investment is in place.


Interesting idea: What if they refused? Would the state shut down the hospital? That seems short sighted...

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