(CA) State high court may give gays another victory

From The L.A. Times:

SAN FRANCISCO -- Two weeks after deciding that same-sex couples are entitled to marry, the California Supreme Court appeared inclined today to rule that physicians may not discriminate against gays in medical treatment, regardless of the doctors' religious views.

During oral argument here, the state high court considered the appeal of Lupita Benitez, a lesbian who claims that two obstetricians in San Diego County declined to perform an intrauterine insemination with donated sperm because of her sexual orientation.

The physicians contend they oppose helping any single woman become pregnant. They maintain they have a constitutionally protected right to their religious views and should not be required to act in opposition to them.

Justice Carol A. Corrigan, apparently skeptical of the doctors' position, asked one of their lawyers whether it is permissible to tell a patient, "I am not going to do it for you because of who you are."

At another point, Corrigan referred to the state's anti-discrimination laws, asking: "You're telling me that freedom of religion should trump statutory regulations?"

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-doctor29-2008may29,0,592068.story?track=rss

My belief trumps your life. Get over it.

:sarcasm:

This is what I argued about when the debate was about abortion. That taken to it's logical conclusion it could easily be seen as people using their religion against gays and lesbians when it comes to surgeries, AIDS drugs, and more.

I hate being proven right. Fortunately it doesn't happen often.

Be prepared to see Christian Science paramedics, who will demand a religious right to use prayer rather than medicine to help people with heart attacks and who have been in car accidents.

Be prepared to see Jehovah's Witness emergency room doctors who refuse to authorize blood transfusions because they are "sinful."

Be prepared to see pharmacists who refuse to dispense medicines to people with HIV disease because AIDS is "God's punishment for being wicked."

It must stop now.

in a fatal accident, I'd bury them together and the difference between two is that my partner would be dead when it happened.

I believe in sending servants into the afterlife. . . .