Spoke too soon

[snousle]

Oh great, the Blunt Amendment, as I understand it, will indeed allow ANY employer to avoid covering ANY procedure that violates their religious "conscience". Since the amendment uses very general language, that presumably includes blood transfusions and organ transplants, if your employer happens to be a Jehovah's Witness.

So I guess we have our answer?

Comments

[dhpbear.livejournal.com]

Sounds rather blunt to me :)

[snousle.livejournal.com]

WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING? Oh, right.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

There are times where it would be useful to be a Christian - because there are people who do indeed deserve to vanish down a flaming crack in the earth in a cloud of sulfurous smoke and with the accompaniment of a truly evil laugh.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Sheesh. We really need to separate medical insurance from employment.

[come-to-think.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear! That silly arrangement, which I gather started as a regulatory dodge during W.W. II, has nothing to recommend it.

[chefxh.livejournal.com]

aaaaaaaand Missouri makes me so proud, again.

[sig-info.livejournal.com]

I can't see how this proposed amendment will have any affect. Corporations may be people legally, but they've demonstrated time and again that they do not have consciences.

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

Jehova's Witnesses have businesses? Other than their Watchtower magazine?