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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (645766)2/17/2012 7:11:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1577123
 
Bentway, > I'm against giving ANY religion special treatment. People can worship and do whatever they want, as individuals, but not as public institutions, as are hospitals.

Two things wrong with that argument:

1) You are essentially arguing that public institutions should be "religion-free" zones, because any hint of religious belief would be "special treatment."

2) You are claiming Catholic-run hospitals and other institutions that accept public funds as "public institutions." Hence you can impose whatever mandates you want AND get more and more institutions under the "public" label by increasing the size and power of government.

I agree wholeheartedly with this blogger's conclusion from the NYTimes:

douthat.blogs.nytimes.com

Finally, Drum’s broader logic is a textbook example of what I was talking about in my column on Sunday — the way that government crowds out and co-opts the private sphere, first by making it impossible to run an institution that serves the public without having some sort of entanglement with the state, and then by using that entanglement to pretend that institutions with explicit religious missions and histories are somehow de facto secular instead. Once the state grows large enough, there will always be some theoretical justification available for imposing a governmental norm — or, more aptly, a purely partisan one — on private institutions that seek to go their own way instead. But the mere fact that such justifications can be dreamed up by creative regulators doesn’t make them reasonable or just.
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