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Birth Control Access is Not a War on Religion (Original Post) progsrock Feb 2012 OP
Yeah, you don't have to USE contraception. napoleon_in_rags Feb 2012 #1
Unless you're a pharmacist, for some reason catrose Feb 2012 #3
Such pharmacists should quit and go into the ministry. Lasher Feb 2012 #4
Here ya go .. great interview below Tx4obama Feb 2012 #2

napoleon_in_rags

(3,991 posts)
1. Yeah, you don't have to USE contraception.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 03:16 AM
Feb 2012

What the disagreement with Obama is about is their supposed right to prevent OTHER people from getting it, which they don't have because that interferes with THEIR religious rights.

This kind of stuff comes up in institutional settings. You have a disabled person, who has a right to choose their meals in accordance with their likes and faith, but needs help to prepare it from paid staff because they are disabled. If the disabled person is a Christian and wants to have bacon for breakfast, but his staff is a Muslim who thinks eating pork is a sin, does the Muslim have to cook it for him? Yes, he has to cook it or quit, because to not do it would be him forcing his religious views on the disabled person, which is a violation of the constitution. The institutions commitment to the Muslim is to not require him to eat pork, which it isn't.

catrose

(5,079 posts)
3. Unless you're a pharmacist, for some reason
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 09:46 AM
Feb 2012

How they can claim that they simply can't fill prescriptions that are against their religion is beyond me.

Lasher

(27,683 posts)
4. Such pharmacists should quit and go into the ministry.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 10:03 AM
Feb 2012

As their tender sensitivities are a clear sign of a higher calling.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
2. Here ya go .. great interview below
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 03:44 AM
Feb 2012

Video: Lawrence O'Donnell interview with Dan Boies - Constitutionality of birth control mandate

VIDEO segment here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#46320611

It's a 'must see' interview.


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