Shalom – you are either very naive or terribly misguided.
I try to respond to some parts of your post which made no sense and was all over the place.
1. I don’t think Rush was making the comments he did because of things he felt were morally right or wrong. He’s by far the wrong person to comment on morals. He knows it and doesn’t try to deny it. He’ll stay out of your business and he’d want you to stay out of his.
2. Brissim and the issue at hand are not the same issue. They don’t even come close to comparison. With brissim we exercise our right to freedom of religion. With the issue she is talking about she is exercising her right to liberty and pursuit of happiness. (if that’s what she thinks makes her happy). Nobody is stopping her from doing anything.
3. Nobody wants the government or health insurance companies to pay for brissim. I think that that is a terrible scenario with too many bad implications. (i.e. who is qualified to do procedure, in hospital setting, no wine…)
And I certainly don’t understand why a person in their right mind would want the government or health insurance involved in their private lives. BUT THE REAL ISSUE IS THAT I DON’T WANT TO HAVE TO PAY FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S STUPIDITIES. If you really think this won’t come from taxpayer’s money or lead to a rise in health care costs – you’re seriously deluded. You want to live your life the way you want – fine but don’t make me pay for it.
I don’t know why there are so many people who are willing to keep putting on the blinders.
4. No one ever brought Jews or our political stance into this conversation. To the benefit of everyone here, please lets keep it that way.
5. The classic case of being so open minded that the brain falls out.
Once you have government paying for everything and anything. You have government telling you how they’ll pay, only on what terms, to whom they’ll pay and they’ll make a couple of more stuff illegal on the way to save money.
By government not paying for private lifestyles is not by any means a way of controlling it. It is a way of staying out of it. Keeping you in control. It is the people with a chip on their shoulder that constantly need the government recognition to okay what their doing.
6. “I could go on, but as a Jew, I am always half expecting politicians to throw Jews under the bus in order to advance their own power”
That is the only good and true statement there is from your whole post. It is always important to remember that we are in galus.