Opposing changing the traditional definition of marriage has nothing to do with hate. I have two cousins, one dead now, who I am sure are gay. Don't hate them. Don't think they should or should have married some guy either.
While one of those cousins was dying, my fundamentalist Christian parents cared for him right up until his death - his immediate family had all predeceased him. When he was ill with no insurance, I was prepared to kick in money to help him pay his bills - turns out he didn't need it as unbeknownst to us, he'd inherited more than enough from his parents to cover all his bills.
Hatred has nothing to do with right and wrong.
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if you are going to be engaged in a public business under regulation or license from the public, you should act in an appropriate manner regardless of your private views.
Which doesn't mean you're required to violate your religious faith - work on sabbaths and holy days, perform abortions, sex change ops, etc etc etc.
If a doctor does not want to perform sex change operations then he/she shouldn't be a sex change operation surgeon.
Any surgeon could do that, just as any could perform abortions.
People could easily object to serving meat.
Good example. If one were a Hindu and objected to serving meat, they shouldn't be made to sell meat in their restaurant or store. Suing a Christian doctor because she won't do a particular procedure is like suing a vegetarian restaurant for not serving you a steak.
"a lesbian sued a doctor for referring her to another doctor to provide in vitro fertilization services. And won thanks to the extremist CA Supreme Court"
Where is the link to this? What was the suit based on and what was the decision based on?
I posted this previously. You haven't been paying attention.
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Are you saying you would be fine with doctors refusing to provide Viagra to men over 55 because they believe it is morally indefensible to have sex with no intention of having children with their wives?
If there were a religion which had that tenet, sure. There aren't any such religions though as far as I know.
So, you are fine with a doctor performing an abortion to save a mother's life. Why isn't that against your religion?
Sure. Because both will die w/o intervention.
How about in the case of rape or incest? How about if the 'mother' to be is under age?
Problematic. LEave it up to the states to legislate.
How about if the 'mother' to be has no visible means of support for herself and cannot support the baby and the baby has no realistic chance of being adopted?
How would you know a baby can't be adopted? And why would you assume if its not adopted, it s/b killed?
If you can make rules about abortions and birth control and the like, I can certainly make rules about whom I believe to be nincompoops.
You're entitled to your opinions like everyone else. You're not empowered to force your views on everyone else.
So, you acknowledge that a Christian Scientist shouldn't be a doctor
I don't know much about them but presume being a doctor would violate their beliefs.
but you refuse to say that an overly religious person should be
I think you meant "shouldn't be". That is your opinion. That prolife people like for instance, Ron Paul, shouldn't be doctors.
and that the medical profession should kow tow to the specific religious requirements of that doctor?
No, its the individual doctor who should be allowed to keep to his faith. Like Ron Paul, an obstetrician. He shouldn't be required to perform abortions against his will.
Radical secularist? What the heck is that?
You and JF Shepard.
Agnostics or, OMG (!!!), atheists would not have to leave the medical profession since that profession is not a religious one.
No one is suggesting they should. You're saying prolifers like obstetrician Ron Paul should be forced out of medicine.
If atheists wanted to be employed by a church, the church shouldn't have to kowtow to his/her beliefs either.
And shouldn't be required to hire him either.
If religious doctors do not want to perform abortions or provide birth control, they should stay away from those specialties or find some way around the problem that does not involve failure to provide medically acceptable services to their customers.
We disagree. You want to push doctors like Ron Paul and Bill Frist out of medicine. I don't. |
