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Originally Posted by SebC
That's a very loose definition of discrimination... and even if it is discrimination, it's the kind of descrimination I support. Democracy means you can't just opt out of the things you don't believe in.
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I dont think it is. I think it should be a tax payer's right to ensure they are not financially supporting something that is instrinsically against their beleifs.
I'm not saying every Tom Dick and Harry can just say "I dont want an overpass in the south, so I want a tax rebate", I am just saying that if it is truly against your religion to provide any kind of facilitation to something, then your freedom of religion is bein infringed upon.
I guess the real point I am getting at, is that it just seems like when party X's rights and freedoms are protected, it always seems to infringe on party Y's.
Party X: "I have the right to carry a religious knife"
Party Y: "I have the right to be secured from weapons on an airplane"
Party X: "I have the right to marry my homosexual partner"
Party Y: "I have the right to refuse to marry you in my church"
Party X: "I have the right to smoke inside a pub"
Party Y: "I have the right to breathe clean air inside a pub"
Maybe these arent the most bulletproof examples, but I hope you can kind of see where I am coming from.