tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post8083862111505636705..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Toward Compromise on Gay Rights and Religious FreedomJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-39409698929847262132017-08-15T15:16:25.660-04:002017-08-15T15:16:25.660-04:00The problem with "Church-run businesses and s...The problem with "Church-run businesses and schools" is that, for hospitals at least, the *only* health care employers in perhaps a 50 mile radius are religious institutions.<br /><br />In my own little rural corner of Virginia, Bon Secour hospital system bought up our previously autonomous local hospital. The next nearest hospitals are each almost an hour away. For LPNs and CNAs (and not a few RNs) who live on their families' homeplaces because they don't earn enough to rent much less buy their own place, that's too far to drive. So if they want to work in their field, the *only* employer is Bon Secour. The *only* change in the past two years that Bon Secour brought to our little hospital (despite many many promises of upgrades) was the hanging of crucifixes in the waiting rooms. I have not been in any of the remaining hospital rooms (25 left now) to see if they also have crucifixes.<br /><br />Now Bon Secour is a Catholic system. And it's supposedly "not for profit" and "religious." But the rationale for not keeping its promises to our community is that the hospital is not making money. (Of course, its Richmond area hospitals *are* making money, a lot of it from patients that our local hospital has to transport out to them because we cannot provide appropriate care here.)<br /><br />So-- if they're allowed to hire only Christians, and not secular humanists, only cis-gender men and women, not transpeople, only heterosexuals and not GLBQ folks-- that absolutely is a reason for the law to force them to change their hiring practices-- to protect the folks living right here where I do.<br /><br />(Not to mention I had to change my assorted advance healthcare documents to state that I am to be transported to a non-Catholic hospital if my local one refuses to honor my DNR statements.)pootrsoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05975929246429466067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-11074270557665203912017-08-14T20:30:37.129-04:002017-08-14T20:30:37.129-04:00@Norman
A compromise deal would accomplish basica...@Norman<br /><br />A compromise deal would accomplish basically that. The exceptions would be things like churches and church-run businesses and schools, or small time landlords taking on private boarders in their own homes.<br /><br />If you're gay, why in the world would you want to work for any church that doesn't accept you, or live in the same house as someone who despises you? There's zero reason to have the law force such people to accomodate you, and zero reason for you to WANT it to do so.<br /><br />Let the zealots have their safe spaces, and hide away in their churches. What they choose to do, say, or believe in the privacy of their own religious settings is their choice. What actually matters is everyday public life outside of those churches.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-24301930813693993732017-08-14T19:56:50.959-04:002017-08-14T19:56:50.959-04:00No, we will not compromise. Full equality in busin...No, we will not compromise. Full equality in business and life for all gays. Gods be damned!!!NormanBateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180901868329147350noreply@blogger.com