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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (74425)	9/11/2003 1:51:42 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think a doctor or masseur should have a legal right to refuse any patient he or she wants to. "Moral" objection makes me giggle, as grounds offered for objection, since unless the doctor has other categories of patient he/she rejects for that reason (divorced people? those who won't be going to heaven? atheists? "substance abusers"? people behind on their child support payments? women who wear miniskirts? men who've been charged with securities fraud? men who have STD's contracted through casual heterosex? people who don't take adequate care of the body God gave them as a temple........) It used to be the case, and maybe is now, that although if you are renting out apts in a multi-apt bldg you own, you couldn't refuse, for example, a black tenant; but if you were renting out a small apartment in your own house, you could reject on any grounds at all. That seems right to me, and for a similar reason, someone shouldn't be forced to rub someone else's body if it gives him/her the willies for any reason at all. But if it's a doctor, and he/she endangers somebody's life or health by the refusal, that's a whole new deal, of course.