[Vision2020] A fine point, perhaps.

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 7/1/2014 8:55 AM, Gary Crabtree wrote:
> [...] from the statist perspective it's only a right if it can in some 
> way be inflicted on someone else.

No.  Rights are reserved to inhere only in natural persons, not in 
organizations either private or public.  Rights are not forced on anyone.

> Either by making others pay for it or by forcing the participation of 
> those who would otherwise demure. [sic]

Government may require employers to accept responsibility to compensate 
employees.  An employer may not restrict or violate an employee's 
freedom of religion by requiring an employee to adopt or to adhere to 
the employer's religious creed or preference.

In addition to being reprehensible interpersonal behavior to attempt to 
regulate religious belief as a condition of employment, such behavior is 
economically counterproductive simply because it is psychologically 
counterproductive.  Not only is such behavior rude, crude, and boorish, 
it represents managerial incompetence that should not be tolerated by 
investors concerned with the quality of their investments, or by 
economic developers concerned with the stability of their regional 
economic operations.


Ken