The HHS Mandate and Judicial Theocracy

[Bubba_Switzler]

Are judges more competent to determine what a particular religion requires or forbids than that religion’s own leaders or adherents? Most would think not. Yet that’s what two of the recent rulings related to the Health and Human Services contraception, sterilization, and abortion-drug mandate seem to claim.

thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/01/7403/

 

[Aquila_Lucis]

thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/01/7403/

Favorite part:

“If you believed killing animals to be morally wrong, you would reasonably think it wrong to give someone a gift certificate to a steakhouse, even though the recipient might choose not to use it, or not to use it in ways that you find objectionable—even steakhouses usually include some vegetarian options on the menu.”