Why are Democrats so intent on taking away our rights?

Question

OK, Liberals always accuse Conservatives of telling others how to live their lives, but I find it tends to go the other way:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070727/ap_on_he_me/refusing_prescriptions

Now Pharmacists are no longer allowed to practice their religion? Excuse me, but I seem to recall a little thing called the 1st Amendment. Let me see.....

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

Prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Now, if someone's religion tells them they cannot sell morning-after pills (and, when they started this profession, they weren't required to, so don't say "they should have had another profession), and you make a law telling them they have to, isn't that "prohibiting the free exercise thereof"?????

I am sure you Liberals are OUTRAGED that their first Amendment rights are getting violated, right???

Answer 1

I would think the owner of the business could legally decide what to sell and could not be legally required to sell something they do not want to.

This one should go to the Supremes.

Answer 2

So you have a right to do whatever you want on the job if it's your religion? Hardly.

That's like saying you can discriminate against Jews because you're a Muslim or something. What about my right to buy the morning after pill? How ironic that you defend a pharmacist for allegedly practicing his religion by imposing his religious beliefs on his customers! The First Amendment doesn't have anything to do with this issue.

If you can't perform the job because your religion forbids it, find another job.

Answer 3

No where in that law did it say they couldn't go to church, or talk about God, or.. whatever.. to do with their religion. It just stated that they couldn't refuse a drug that has been approved by the government for the public. In no way has their religion been infringed upon. I mean.. seriously.. what if my religion states that I should be able to do every drug in existence.. then should it be made "legal for me"? no.. so the converse shouldn't be allowed either.

Now, a valid question is whether a pharmacist has the right to refuse to sell a drug in their store.. not on any religious grounds.. just if they have that right... maybe they just don't feel like it that day or something.. or maybe they don't feel it's safe... That is an argument that is more than valid to take up.

Answer 4

The Democrats are a political party. The purpose of a political party is to gain and hold political power. Rights - particularly the rights of political opponents - often get in the way of that objective.


And, no regulating specific professions does not affect the free exercise of religion - being of a specific religion does not exempt you from the law. Whether it's a Christian refusing to sell abortificents, a Muslim refusing to transport a half case of California Chardonay in his cab, it doesn't matter. If your religion keeps you from performing the requirements of a job, just quit.

Answer 5

Another right wing nut spews his inanities.

Can you just imagine if every religious person in each and every religion plus the atheists and agnostics had free rein to drag ALL THEIR RELIGIOUS NO NOS into the public secular world and demand their rights to do what the hell their religion tells them to do.

This is a SECULAR society founded on a secular Constitution and NOT A THEOCRACY founded on any specific religion or any religion at all period.

These pharmacists are nothing but typical religious fundamentalist raging monumental hypocrites who for moralizing and holier-than-thou reasons have chosen just ONE Christian no-no to follow.Why are they just picking this one moral belief to act on when there are literally hundreds in the Judeo-Christian code (let alone all other religious and non-religious codes)

These friggin stinking pharmacists should then refuse to SERVE ALL ADUULTERERS (the worst and most often mentioned sin of all in The Bible),then HOMOSEXUALS and then in order to OBEY GOD'S TEN COMMANDMENTS they should refuse to serve LIARS,ATHEISTS,AGNOSTICS,ROBBERS,all those who do not honour their mothers and fathers etc etc etc .

Then of course we have all the other religions and must allow them also full rights to follow their religious beliefs.

We then will have Islamic Sharria (sic) law and not only will we then be allowed not to fill their perscriptions we can stone all adulterers and prostitutes to death and a hundred other religious RIGHTS .Isn't this going to be just great fun !!!!!!


Of course it should not be only the pharmacists who have the right to refuse to give their services to those their religions tell them they should spurn.

Policemen,Doctors,Lawyers,garbage collectors,truck drivers,teachers and millions of others in other professions/jobs will just have the right to refuse to deal with anyone they choose according to their religious dictates .

A fireman who knows that a certain pharmacist is "having a piece on the side" can simply refuse to respond to a fire at the pharmacists home on RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RIGHTS LAWS eventhough the pharmacists four children and wife burnt to death in the fire.THIS IS THE FIREMAN'S RIGHT according to this wing nut.



Can you just imagine the utter chaos ruin that will befall any society which followed this whacko right wingers ludicrous thinking.

From under what rock do these people crawl out from under?

Answer 6

They aren't preventing the pharmacists from practicing their religion. They're just saying that the religion of the pharmacist should not prevent them from fulfilling an order from a customer.

Religion has never dictated what someone can or cannot sell (even their bodies...and don't preach Christianity to me - the Catholic Church, a division of Christianity, once ran a series of brothels throughout Europe), and using religion as an excuse to not sell an item you don't agree with personally is a BS argument.

How would you feel if your mother or father was in the hospital on a ventilator, and the nurse assigned to him/her had moral/religious (it's the same thing) objections to life support and thus never checked on them the entire shift.

I'm sure you'd be outraged that a health care provider (which is what a pharmacist is) wasn't caring for your loved one because their moral/religious beliefs said it was wrong.

I have moral beliefs against life support, yet I work on an ICU Step Down unit and am exposed to life support equipment (ventilators and feeding tubes and the such) on an almost daily basis, and I don't refuse to care for a patient based on my moral beliefs for one reason.

It's my job.

Answer 7

Hee Hee! This is a joke right? haha lollollol
oh gosh dang! This is the best I've heard in a while! Your good! Really!!!!
But, Wait!!
It's kind of sad, too!
Phone taps? are they consistent with the first amendment? Is there a right to privacy? I guess not, under the Republican Right wing George W. Bush Administration the citizens of the United States don't have privacy rights.
But, anyway, denying pharmacists their right to worship has not been much of an issue really?
Can't they sell rubbers anymore? Is that the issue?
Dang!

Answer 8

First of all, this issue has been raised for the past decade. Pharmacists have an ethical code that precludes them from serving customers because they have personal disagreements with the use of a medication which is not based on medical grounds.

They are free to practice their religion on themselves but not to make others conform to their idea of morals. If they cannot adhere to that they are free to find a new profession that does not present them with such conflicts.

Answer 9

This is a silly argument since you are talking about employment. An employer (or the government) has the right to limit your "right" to practice your religion or free speech, etc.

For example, you cannot tell every customer to go screw themselves because you feel like it. The employer has the right to prohibit this.

Using your example is like having a cashier at a supermarket refusing to ring up someone's hamburger since she's a vegetarian.

Answer 10

If you read it carefully, nowhere does it say pharmacists may no longer practice their beliefs, not does it single out democrats. The pharmacists are suing the State of Washington, not a political party.

If one is in a field such as medicine, there surely are going to be many situations that come up that may conflict with religious beliefs.