Wednesday 29 July 2015

There’s No Religious Freedom to Refuse Service

There’s No Religious Freedom to Refuse Service

This has been a perennial demand of the religious right, going back to when I wrote “Unapologetic“, one of my earliest essays, in 2005. And while most of these religious supremacists are upset about birth control, it’s hard to see why it would stop there. If you’re a pharmacist who believes that AIDS is God’s punishment for sinners, could you refuse to fill a prescription for antivirals? The court rightly held that the state’s interest in public health and safety trumps these petulant demands.
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