(June 30, 2014 at 3:24 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(June 30, 2014 at 3:23 pm)blackout94 Wrote: The negative answers you gave were the obvious ones any sane person would support and any first world state would provide. I was merely putting emphasis to show how religious freedom cannot be absolute, no right is absolute and a lot of rights can be restricted, this should apply to freedom of religion. I am not an american to talk about your laws, but I'm positive any good doctors ethics code forbids them to refuse treatment, at least in case of life and death, because the patient is an atheist or a member of a different religion, or even if the patient is a personal enemy of the doctor. Just like you can't refuse to hire people, workplaces are not religion oriented, as far as I know, you can't even ask in an interview about someone's religion or sexual orientation, this shouldn't have any effect whatsoever, you are not committing a sin by hiring gays or atheists, but merely being impartial.
Like I said, we allow religious freedom in any civilized state, but all rights (except maybe the right to live) can be restricted at some point to avoid collision with other rights. In this case there is damage done to national health right and family planning right because of a few religious people. I don't think I'd decide in favor of the corporation if I was a judge.
I'm not sure where exactly you live in Europe, but I don't think in America there is such a thing as "family planning rights" or "national health rights".
Where I live the constitution has a right to Healthcare for everyone and a right to family planning, it is a mean of protecting the institution of family. But then again your constitution is a lot shorter than some european constitutions and we don't use amendments, a lot of constitutions in europe have more than 200 articles of rights and duties, principles etc, thanks to the french revolution, and specially after fascism it is a way to ensure people's rights are always protected.
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