telcoman wrote:
Your faith is not germane
We have separation of church and state here and your faith should not interfere with our government policies.
I think Greg has a fair question there. Its one thing to not allow faith to influence prohibitive law. Its another thing to require someone to monetarily support something that they are morally uncomfortable with.
Now, you could form an argument that says: "YOUR taxes don't pay for it, YOUR taxes pay for roads and bridges, and national parks, and all the warm and fuzzy things" but thats a hard sell, because the theory is, all programs in public domain spread equally across the entire taxed population. In other words, everyone who pays, pays some minuscule amount for each program in existence.
But then you could also ask, why does medicare and medicaid fund blood transfusions and organ transplants? Some portion of JW's taxation MUST pay for this right, and since its morally prohibitive to them, why is that acceptable?