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Originally Posted by First Lady
I guess some feel it's okay for healthcare workers religious rights to be trampled on. And I believe they can co-exist along side everyone else's rights.
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They can believe whatever they want but they must leave us out of it.
In the case of the Arizona pharmacist refusing to dispense birth control due to religious belief, that is not leaving us out of it but holding us hostage with it, and it is that sort of theocratic encroachment on free society that infuriates me. You may not believe in birth control. Fine, no one is forcing you to use it, but you absolutely cannot impose those beliefs upon others when you are in such a position that people rely on you to grant access to it.
Stories like that are what make me long for a truly secular society where these sorts of irrational beliefs are treated as they deserve to be; with ridicule and contempt.