In reading about this, and some of the discourse surrounding it, I stumbled upon an interesting sentiment: When the government forces you to do anything it is no longer representative of the people. Well, its supposed to be. The sort of society we supposedly live in is a representative democracy. In theory, we elect a group of representatives and what the majority of them decides goes for the rest of us. Thats what the founding fathers signed up for. Whether our representatives are doing their job, that is, representing the people, or not, is a different matter entirely. While we can attribute a great deal of this to the greed and ambition of legislators, I think the bulk of the blame, however, lies on the failure of our vigilance as private citizens. This is supposed to be OUR government, not an alien force that takes a bunch of our money come April 15th. And weve led it slide into the hands of interests divorced entirely from our own, since long before I was born. A corporation should not have the right to pick and choose which laws it will or will not follow on the basis of religious freedom. Entering into a corporation, unlike happening to be born a citizen in this country, is a voluntary process that as such constitutes an acceptance of subjection to the laws governing corporations. The rights of individuals within a corporation to practice their own religion are not abridged by that corporations obligation to observe these laws. To grant the corporation itself religious freedom is a furtherance of corporate personhood, which, so far, has not worked out for the rest of us.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:13:45 +0000
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