US Just Created A Religious Liberty Task Force
Posted: 08-05-2018 07:33 AM
I'm torn on this one. Was watching C SPAN earlier, and there were the usual suspects freaking out about how certain people or groups are trying to take people's rights away - think the wedding cake non-sale or suppression of abortion rights.
But, I'm trying to see the other side of the issue, such as medical staff forced by employers to perform surgeries they find objectionable or pharmacists forced by employers to provide medications explicitly for reasons which they find objectionable (both examples speak to ending life).
But, it's broader than that - should Jehovah Witness be forced to accept a blood transfusion in order to spare a lawsuit in a wrongful death when healthcare is delivered at a secular hospital? Should Jewish and Muslim merchants be forced to add non kosher non-halal items to their shops because "it's the right thing to do"? And, "who" decides what's "right"? Should Native American pow-wows be banned from public parks just as Nativity scenes are banned? When my Mom was at Mass General, I saw religious/ observant Muslim family members pray throughout the day - should that practice be banned as it was taking place outside a mosque? Should sunrise service at the beach be banned because they occur outside a church or weddings officiated by a priest or rabbi or imam (or pagan priestess for that matter?)?
Most of the people calling-in this morning says that there is no restriction on the practice of religion in this country: no one is stopping people from entering their respective places to worship to worship, and that while there is a a constitutional protection of freedom TO worship (practice religion), there is also freedom FROM religion (that is NOT in the constitution, BTW), and so religious practice should start and stop at the doors of the building. What then about religions that require stepping outside the building in order to "live" their religion? Wouldn't that line of thinking then destroy groups such as The Salvation Army, homeless shelters and soups kitchens such as Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker model?
US Just Created A Religious Liberty Task Force
Attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessions, has announced that he has just created a religious liberty task force responsible for making sure that individuals’ constitutional right is not infringed upon in their daily lives or as they chose to run their business.
This is on the heels of many contentious cases surrounding religious freedom such as the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding for a gay couple’s wedding and the forcing of a religious institution being forced to provide free contraceptives.
https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/u ... ask-force/
But, I'm trying to see the other side of the issue, such as medical staff forced by employers to perform surgeries they find objectionable or pharmacists forced by employers to provide medications explicitly for reasons which they find objectionable (both examples speak to ending life).
But, it's broader than that - should Jehovah Witness be forced to accept a blood transfusion in order to spare a lawsuit in a wrongful death when healthcare is delivered at a secular hospital? Should Jewish and Muslim merchants be forced to add non kosher non-halal items to their shops because "it's the right thing to do"? And, "who" decides what's "right"? Should Native American pow-wows be banned from public parks just as Nativity scenes are banned? When my Mom was at Mass General, I saw religious/ observant Muslim family members pray throughout the day - should that practice be banned as it was taking place outside a mosque? Should sunrise service at the beach be banned because they occur outside a church or weddings officiated by a priest or rabbi or imam (or pagan priestess for that matter?)?
Most of the people calling-in this morning says that there is no restriction on the practice of religion in this country: no one is stopping people from entering their respective places to worship to worship, and that while there is a a constitutional protection of freedom TO worship (practice religion), there is also freedom FROM religion (that is NOT in the constitution, BTW), and so religious practice should start and stop at the doors of the building. What then about religions that require stepping outside the building in order to "live" their religion? Wouldn't that line of thinking then destroy groups such as The Salvation Army, homeless shelters and soups kitchens such as Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker model?
US Just Created A Religious Liberty Task Force
Attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessions, has announced that he has just created a religious liberty task force responsible for making sure that individuals’ constitutional right is not infringed upon in their daily lives or as they chose to run their business.
This is on the heels of many contentious cases surrounding religious freedom such as the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding for a gay couple’s wedding and the forcing of a religious institution being forced to provide free contraceptives.
https://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/u ... ask-force/