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Its not about my pennies. Its about my faith.
by spoiledtechie 10y ago
Its not about my pennies. Its about my faith.
- noobermin 10y agoI don't know if you realized it, but you are close to saying "government should tighten its belt unless it's stuff I believe in". Then, both sides can make the argument, and there is never any deficit reduction, we keep spending on things we want.
- serge2k 10y agoIt's about trying to impose your faith on others. Do you not realize how awful that is? How much of a hypocrite it makes you to hide behind freedom of religion as a means to try to force your religious beliefs on others? Especially via their health care. How would you feel about tying health in to praying to Mecca multiple times a day? How about if you work on the sabbath you lose your coverage? Divorced? No health care for you sinner. STD coverage should probably be banned. I mean sure, there are other ways to get AIDS but if you were having sex in a nice normal marriage then you probably wouldn't get it.
- spoiledtechie 10y agoImposing my faith on others. Disagree. They impose birth control on me.
- serge2k 10y agoReally? Has someone forced you to start using it? Oh wait, you mean that someone made a personal choice to use it. A choice that has exactly nothing to do with you, but you see an opportunity to oppress their freedom to choose so you are going to take it.
- spoiledtechie 10y agoYou don't understand the context. They force me to pay for it, not to use it.
- Frondo 10y agoMan and I am sick of the word "GOD" appearing on my money. It's on the fuckin' money! You want to talk about faith being shoved down people's throats, the Christians are the worst at it.
- spoiledtechie 10y agoSounds like you have more personal problems than just what Christians tell you.
- lmartel 10y agoYou didn't answer the question.
- enraged_camel 10y agoI'm sorry but you can't criticize the ACA for being unconstitutional, while also arguing that the law should allow you to opt out of supporting policies that are against your faith. The First Amendment states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Also known as the Separation of Church and State. You are free to exercise your religious beliefs by not using birth control. But you cannot demand that Congress write the laws to fit your belief system. edit: By the way, I downvoted you not because I disagree with you, but because of your hypocrisy.
- spoiledtechie 10y agoSeparation of church and state doesn't apply here. The original founders didn't want church to control the state. Maybe you need to think about this a bit more, since your understanding is faulty. As for being a Christian, fine, but my faith defines how I think. It doesn't mean the church controls my way of thinking. Just influences it. That in no way has anything to do with the separation of church and state. ESP for founders that were all very religious.
- avalaunch 10y agoWhy does your faith trump someone else's personal belief? That is, why does faith, which is a belief without any proof, often with proof to the contrary, trump a belief that might actually be grounded in some form of reasoning? In both cases it's simply what you believe vs what someone else believes.