On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 01:51:53 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> It's a question of making beliefs be private or "none" becoming the
>> norm.  That's something that's going to take some time over here.
> 
> That reminded me of this. It's not completely inaccurate.
> 
> http://satwcomic.com/the-easy-way

I wish it were that way here.  I don't have a problem with people who 
feel the need to be religious in their personal lives.  They don't need 
to share it with the world - and in fact, they shouldn't.  What we 
believe does drive our behaviour, but if people here in the US would stop 
trying to be "more godly" and just tried to be decent to each other, I 
think we'd find the country a far better place for everyone.

The point at which it's a problem for me is when someone's imposing their 
beliefs on someone else.  I despise SCOTUS' recent decision allowing a 
corporation to hold religious beliefs (say what?) and to impose those 
beliefs on their employees (in the form of not allowing their corporate-
provided health care plan to cover certain forms of contraception, 
because the 'corporation' believes - inaccurately, I might add - that 
those drugs are 'sinful' because they cause abortions (which they don't)).

That a religious belief that's *scientifically* and *medically* 
inaccurate can trump an employee's need for the drug (which may or may 
not have anything to do with its contraceptive uses, I might add) is just 
insane.  But 5 Catholic guys on SCOTUS said that was the case.

Now we just need an Islamic closely-held corporation to decide to impose 
its religious beliefs on its female employees.  Say, for example, they 
have to wear hijab rather than dress "like harlots".  I'm sure SCOTUS 
would not have said THAT was OK - which means they're endorsing a 
religion - something that the first amendment prohibits.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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