My thread is not about **expletive deleted** health care! It's about the First Amendment, and Obama's undermining of it. Go start your own healthcare/contraception/sex thread.
Once again, yes, it is. If you want to debate an issue, or to discuss the debate on an issue, you cannot reasonably expect all participants to proceed with the understanding that only your conclusion is correct, and that any other interpretations are irrelevant. Because that's not debate. That's agreement. They're not really the same thing.
But you're smart, so I'm surprised you didn't realize that.
(See what I did there? Tell me again how smart you think your SIL is...)
Incidentally, is there any particular reason why the Catholic Church needs to have employees? I've read most of the catechism, and I recall nothing stating that salvation is available only to those who are members of a network of corporate entities operating in the marketplace. If the Catholic Church does not want to conform with employment laws, they can simply stop having employees. Seems pretty simple to me. After all, Eternal Salvation is way cheaper than $25/month, just need to hold some beliefs, accept a few sacraments, do some good works. This church just needs to stop it's whining about how the US needs it let it do anything it wants, regardless of whose employment rights it infringes.
Disclaimer: For anyone who didn't notice, the above is entirely snark for the purpose of illustrating a few ideas stated earlier. I do not literally mean the above. At all. And if you get snippy at me for suggesting the Church quit the marketplace in favor of house-churches with no paid employees, I shall
in your general direction. At least.