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DCKit

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5. +2 False Equivalency.

Reply to Bruce Wayne (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 06:35 PM

Mar 2012

I've never know of an Amish business that employed more than a dozen or so people. The majority of Amish are employed by us "English" when they work off the farm - and there are a LOT more of them now (working off the farm) than there were 25 years ago when I was living back in PA.

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Amish, OK. Catholics, No. [View all] rug Mar 2012 OP

Maybe the Pedophile Enablers atreides1 Mar 2012 #1

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Remind me of what large groups of Amish employers are denying women reproductive services Bruce Wayne Mar 2012 #3

Holy- You proved my point- Batman Yellow Submarine Mar 2012 #4

+2 False Equivalency. DCKit Mar 2012 #5

The Amish and members of Christian Care Ministry are not attempting to kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #6

sigh Yellow Submarine Mar 2012 #9

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eventually Yellow Submarine Mar 2012 #10

If the Amish were running large businesses, schools, hospitals, etc. that were intended to serve the LeftishBrit Mar 2012 #11

Actually, a more apt analogy would be... Moonwalk Mar 2012 #14

Although they don't call it insurance, what the Amish do is exactly that Warpy Mar 2012 #12

Dear Catholic Church: Employee health benefits are EARNED benefits LiberalEsto Mar 2012 #13

The difference is insurance. mmonk Mar 2012 #15