I have a question for those who have religious beliefs opposed to the contraception mandate. I do not mean this question as a provocation, but rather in the interest of helping me to understand the problem. Suppose a religious employer knows with 100% certainty that an employee will spend a small amount of her income on contraception. I take it that this does not violate a religious belief. How is that different from directing a percentage of the employee's salary towards health insurance, which will cover contraception?
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Steven Jamar <stevenja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can get behind liberty. Can you (and others) get behind equality? > Often they work together, but sometimes they are in serious conflict. > State sanctioned liberty to exclude and discriminate against denies > equality to some. State sanctioned and enforced equality limits the > liberty of some who want to be free to exclude on liberty grounds. State > prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, and > religion mean in no small part those people are at liberty to do things and > to participate in things they could not without the anti-discrimination > laws -- so it increases their liberty (and equality) at the expense of some > liberty of others who want to treat some as less equal. > > It is not an easy calculus nor is consistency possible. But there are > values in the constitution beyond liberty and free exercise. > > Steve > > > -- > Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 > Director of International Programs, Institute for Intellectual Property > and Social Justice http://iipsj.org > Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8567 > http://iipsj.com/SDJ/ > > > "I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing > or imbeciles who mean it." > -- Morrie Brickman > > On Mar 11, 2014, at 3:18 PM, K Chen <tzn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I indulge in the fantasy that liberty is a founding belief that we all > can believe in and come to reasonable compromise but > reality continuously disabuses me of the notion. > > > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are > posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or > wrongly) forward the messages to others. > -- Hillel Y. Levin Associate Professor University of Georgia School of Law 120 Herty Dr. Athens, GA 30602 (678) 641-7452 hle...@uga.edu hillelle...@gmail.com SSRN Author Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=466645
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