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Conscience Clauses - not just for birth control anymore
I've raged often enough in my LJ about women who are denied birth control by pharmacists who won't dirty their moral righteousness by their duty to their customers.
Well, remember that slippery slope that I kept bitching about? How it wasn't going to just stay birth control, how this was the wedge to start denying all sorts of things on religious grounds? It's begun: A California appeals court last week sided with the doctors, Christine Brody and Douglas Fenton, saying they can claim religious liberty in refusing to treat a patient who was gay because it was against their Christian beliefs.
We're sliding down that slippery slope, people, and we're picking up speed. Both sides admit that this case is exactly what it looks like it is - not a discussion about fertilization or right to life, but the test case on "whether a doctor can choose who to treat based on religious beliefs."
The doctors are claiming that they didn't refuse to treat her because she was gay, they refused to treat her because she wasn't married. Discrimination based on marital status, y'see, is not prohibited by law. Except for that charming Catch-22 that there is no gay marriage in her state...
Well, remember that slippery slope that I kept bitching about? How it wasn't going to just stay birth control, how this was the wedge to start denying all sorts of things on religious grounds? It's begun: A California appeals court last week sided with the doctors, Christine Brody and Douglas Fenton, saying they can claim religious liberty in refusing to treat a patient who was gay because it was against their Christian beliefs.
We're sliding down that slippery slope, people, and we're picking up speed. Both sides admit that this case is exactly what it looks like it is - not a discussion about fertilization or right to life, but the test case on "whether a doctor can choose who to treat based on religious beliefs."
The doctors are claiming that they didn't refuse to treat her because she was gay, they refused to treat her because she wasn't married. Discrimination based on marital status, y'see, is not prohibited by law. Except for that charming Catch-22 that there is no gay marriage in her state...