tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post349017075273838384..comments2024-03-29T11:29:58.276+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: Indiana redux: friends opineKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-49776668531122275152015-04-02T14:40:05.614+09:002015-04-02T14:40:05.614+09:00Mike,
Yeah, that harks back to an earlier debate ...Mike,<br /><br />Yeah, that harks back to an earlier debate about ACA and abortion, and I think that, in the example you give re: Church-run hospitals, a stronger argument could be made (than could be made by an all-purpose bakery, or by <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2015/04/01/memories-pizza-closes-indiana-deny-service-gay-wedding/" rel="nofollow">Memories Pizza</a>, for example) for the legitimacy of principled religious objections to providing goods and services. Not that Church-run hospitals present an absolutely clear case, either: would they, for example, turn away non-Catholic patients? I doubt it.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-29568232420469036552015-04-02T06:23:58.773+09:002015-04-02T06:23:58.773+09:00There is an interesting line in your post: "w...There is an interesting line in your post: "whether businesses run by religious people enjoy the same legal and moral status as religious institutions, like churches, that claim the right to refuse services on religious grounds."<br /><br />This is interesting to me because of a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) by Catholic hospitals. These are hospitals owned by managed and run by branches of the Roman Catholic Church. These institutions, it appears, going to be compelled to offer artificial birth control (at a minimum) and possibly other birth control/pregnancy terminating drugs/procedures. As these institutions aren't "churches" do they hold moral/legal status to refuse types of treatment?<br /><br />I would be inclined to say that a business run by an overtly religious person might have a moral right to refuse service; but the legal side is a bit more tenuous.The Maximum Leaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16049183891152402775noreply@blogger.com