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tsatske -> RE: Faith based drug stores.... (10/29/2008 6:43:13 AM)
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First of all, I do not see the issue with 'mixing faith and ...'
This country is full of people who really LIKE the whole constitution thingamabob, so they will tell you there is freedom of Religion (which there still is, not saying otherwise - it is being interfered with, but, then, so are all our other rights, there are red flags falling on the field on every right, but we haven't lost them just yet...)
But, when you start talking about people PRACTICING their individual faiths, and putting their faith into action, well, now, that is really only okay if their faith pretty much co-incides with what *I* believe. Keep it up and next thing you know we will be France, proudly declaring that it is okay for a Catholic to wear a cruxifix, but a Moslem woman can not cover her hair, under penalty of law.
As to the specifics here, I agree with CL, although I see the potentail for the need for action in the extreme - until that extreme arrives, I just don't see the problem. And, in this modern day and age, I am not sure the extreme is *capable* of arriving, in the case of the drugstores, anyway.
The free market will handle *most* of life's problems. So, if one store choses not to carry certain things, that is pretty much okay. It can only be a problem with BOTH of these conditions of a crisis are met:
1. It is, to some degree, a necessary product. (Drugs certainly qualify)
2. There begins to be virtually NO WHERE you can get that product or service.
RElators should be able to sell their homes to whomever they, or the neiborhood assocation, want, right? Until they start controling the makeup of a community, and discriminating. Honestly, if one neihborhood wants to be lilly white, I say let them - keeps the bigots from living next door to ME. but if it starts being hard for certain people to live where they want to live, that is a problem.
If a half dozen stores don't sell Birth control - honestly, that is their right. Now, if it starts being hard to get your prescription filled in a small town, now there's a problem. But, honestly, unlike housing - can this problem even exist, in modern America? With the internet - and, if you don't have internet access, I bet your doctor does. So the planned parenthood clinic, or GYNs office, in a small town, if EVERY drugstore went this way, (unlikely, but the extreme) - then the clinic or docs office starts filling the prescription for you in office.
What if you can't get an abortion? (Abortion is geographically unavialalbe in two thirds of the United States. Georgraphically unavailable is defined as - would require a hotel stay.) Are you going to conscript doctors and FORCE them to perform abortions?
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