Jacob Sullum on Free Birth Control and Unfree Photographers

According to The New York Times, a
case the Supreme Court heard in March, involving a challenge to
Obamacare’s requirement that businesses pay for their employees’
contraceptives, “pits religious liberty against women’s rights.”
Similarly, the recent controversy over an Arizona bill aimed at
protecting business owners from being forced to treat homosexual
and heterosexual couples alike was widely perceived as a conflict
between religious liberty and gay rights. Both of these debates are
more accurately described as clashes between real rights and fake
rights, says Jacob Sullum, because they pit negative liberty, which
requires freedom from external restraint, against positive liberty,
which imposes demands on other people’s resources. Under the latter
vision, giving freedom to one person requires taking it away from
another.

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