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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (77078)	10/9/2003 3:35:41 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

In a case of freedom of conscience, there is an inherent disagreement on what is morally correct, so the matter becomes one of the right of the individual to determine his own behavior against the right of the state to coerce him. The individual has a broad liberty interest, without invoking conscience, that the state already tries to respect, but, nevertheless, the state does not need "compelling" state interest to regulate. The invocation of freedom of conscience is a claim that conformity would violate one's core values, and therefore profoundly violate autonomy. Thus, the state has to have a compelling reason to interfere..........