Comments on: What If Jesus Is Saying It’s OK to Pay for Things that Are Against Your Religion? (Since You Probably Always Are) //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/03/paying-against-religion/ Faith and Family; Justice, Joy, Bread of Life Fri, 02 May 2014 00:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 //wordpress.com/ By: publichealthwatch | Don’t Be Fooled: The Evangelical Campaign Against Birth Control Is About Politics – Not Religion //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/03/paying-against-religion/#comment-7332 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:59:04 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4555#comment-7332 […] author Rachel Marie Stone made a similar point on her blog, where she discussed her time working at a Family Planning Clinic in Malawi. She pointed out that […]

]]> By: Did the U.S.A.’s Founding Fathers Disobey Jesus’ Teachings? | Jessica Veldstra //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/03/paying-against-religion/#comment-5704 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:59:40 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4555#comment-5704 […] we are obligated to do (Matthew 22:15-22).   As Rachel Marie Stone points out in her blog “What if Jesus is Saying it’s Ok t,o Pay for Things That are Against Your Religion (Sinc…,  we are always paying for something we don’t morally agree with. When Jesus told his disciples […]

]]> By: toomanyjens //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/03/paying-against-religion/#comment-5486 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:08:39 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4555#comment-5486 Ugh, I think my comment got eaten by WordPress’s login page, so I’ll just quickly say again that I’m glad to see another person arguing in favor of insurance coverage of contraception from a pro-life point of view.

]]> By: toomanyjens //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/03/paying-against-religion/#comment-5485 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:06:17 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4555#comment-5485 Hi Rachel,
Thank you for this post. I always appreciate seeing someone else argue for contraception, and in particular for insurance coverage of contraception, from a pro-life point of view. (I’ve been blogging about this for a while – //www.allourlives.org/tag/hhs_mandate/.). I’m a nonbeliever myself, so I worry that my rejection of the “freedom of religion” argument in the case of the contraception mandate comes across as hostility toward religion. If it’s hostility toward anything, it’s toward the idea that an employee’s compensation really belongs to the employer, not the employee, and should be used as the employer sees fit.

Of course, there’s also a lot of misinformation about the mandate requiring “abortifacient” drugs to be covered, when so far the evidence hasn’t demonstrated that emergency contraception does anything except prevent fertilization.

]]> By: Paul Dubuc //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/03/paying-against-religion/#comment-5474 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:54:22 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4555#comment-5474 Do you think Paul would have favored having more discretion over how his tax money was spent?

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