Bush HHS pushing reg that would require hospitals to tolerate bigots on staff

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003238.html">Difficult to explain what they're doing in a nutshell. But basically, you all know that the religious right has been on a crusade of late to ensure that their bigoted and fringe-minded employees can accept health care related jobs and then not administer health care if they religiously object to you. Meaning, if a pharmacist is offended by birth control, they don't need to give you the morning after pill after you've been raped. If an ambulance driver objects to you being gay, they can refuse to help you after a heart attack. And I suppose if an emergency room worker is a Baptist and thinks that Catholics worship Satan (this is what Baptists think, just ask John McCain's ministers), they can presumably walk away as you're being wheeled in on death's door.

This is the kind of thing that Congress needs to stop in its tracks. Your religion doesn't trump my health care. If you have a problem administering health care to someone you don't like, then go work at McDonald's and see if they let you not serve Big Macs to someone you don't like. This is about religious extremists wanting to codify their extremism and bigotry. It's about conservative Christian activists wanting special rights on the job (who among us has the right, expects the right, to not work with a client because of our religion?). The Democrats need to include a provision in an upcoming piece of legislation that would cut off all funds for the implementation of this regulation. Now.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/bush-hhs-pushing-reg-that-would-require.html

how Orwellian

And solidify a legacy of a theocratic regime.

There will be a breaking point, which will open the flood gates.

Basically if you don't agree that they have the right to express their hatreds, then you're the bigot. You're restricting their heritage, or their religion!

It still amazes me how many people define their existence by who they hate, yet keep calling themselves Christians

:grr:

:kick: & R

If I'm sick or injured and laying on a gurney awaiting examination at a hospital, I sure as hell don't want to be worried about being denied treatment because my religious views, or lack of them, might conflict with those of some of the hospital staff...

although arguable crazy, is a dem, and when this shit started here, there was a new law on the table in a matter of days. it was passed within a couple of days, also.
so, folks, choice really is the big dif between us and the thugs.

Even though we live in a very liberal area, I have always taught them to keep their faith to themselves. There is never a need to give a bigot ammunition.

Yes-- things should not need to be that way, but they are. The beauty of my faith is that we can easily slip back underground. I could and would fake being another religion if necessary.

I doubt this will go anywhere though. I cannot see this getting past congress or the Supreme court. Especially not before January.