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browngirl's LJ post, The Right of Conscience (I should add here that she's agin' it)...
Synopsis: Many professionals in the medical field, notably pharmacists, are seeking the "right of conscience" to refuse to dispense medicine or treatment when it goes against their stated religious beliefs.
My comments:
If it's against a pharmacist's Christian beliefs to provide a drug designed to stop a pregnancy from happening, then it also ought to be against their beliefs to provide allergy medication to people suffering from a shellfish allergy (which they ought not to be eating) or pain medicine to anyone injured working on a Sunday (when they ought not to be working). They should also categorically refuse medicine designed to prolong someone's life beyond the Biblically stated limit of 70 years, or 80 by reason of good health.
And I continue further:
Unlike some sanctimonious Bible-up-the-ass blasphemers, I fully believe in a God powerful enough to do whatever He wants, who doesn't need His worshippers to stop other people from doing things that are wrong, but don't hurt anyone but themselves. What do they really learn from being stopped? Nothing! Is that what we're supposed to do? I don't think so!
I mean, look at the story of the wasteful son. He asked his father for his inheritance-- half of his father's property. Did his father say "No, you'll spend it all on girls and booze"? No, he gave it to him.
And his son DID spend it on girls and booze. Did his father go and say "Ha, I was right, now come home"? No, he didn't, because it was his son's choice.
So his son had to get a job, and he was really bummed out because it didn't pay a lot, and he was hungry and didn't have any cable internet and ran out of toilet paper a lot, and one day he was cleaning tables at McDonald's where he worked, picking up french fries that the kids threw all over, and he thought to himself, "This really sucks, I'm so hungry, and nobody ever brings ME any french fries." But did his father go and get him and say "Well, I hope you've learned your lesson, you lazy little twit"? No, he didn't.
The son finally REALIZED that he might get treated better at home than he did in his apartment with his five piggish roommates, and he DECIDED to go home, prepared to live in his parents' garage and sleep under the partially restored Lincoln, but when his father got the collect call and knew that his son had REALIZED what he'd done and made a DECISION for himself, he ran out to meet him, welcomed him home as a son, and ordered in dinner.
Being a good Christian doesn't have to mean being a bad pharmacist. It can mean letting people do what they've decided, and being ready to love them when they come back.
browngirl's LJ post, The Right of Conscience (I should add here that she's agin' it)... Synopsis: Many professionals in the medical field, notably pharmacists, are seeking the "right of conscience" to refuse to dispense medicine or treatment when it goes against their stated religious beliefs.
My comments:
If it's against a pharmacist's Christian beliefs to provide a drug designed to stop a pregnancy from happening, then it also ought to be against their beliefs to provide allergy medication to people suffering from a shellfish allergy (which they ought not to be eating) or pain medicine to anyone injured working on a Sunday (when they ought not to be working). They should also categorically refuse medicine designed to prolong someone's life beyond the Biblically stated limit of 70 years, or 80 by reason of good health.
And I continue further:
Unlike some sanctimonious Bible-up-the-ass blasphemers, I fully believe in a God powerful enough to do whatever He wants, who doesn't need His worshippers to stop other people from doing things that are wrong, but don't hurt anyone but themselves. What do they really learn from being stopped? Nothing! Is that what we're supposed to do? I don't think so!
I mean, look at the story of the wasteful son. He asked his father for his inheritance-- half of his father's property. Did his father say "No, you'll spend it all on girls and booze"? No, he gave it to him.
And his son DID spend it on girls and booze. Did his father go and say "Ha, I was right, now come home"? No, he didn't, because it was his son's choice.
So his son had to get a job, and he was really bummed out because it didn't pay a lot, and he was hungry and didn't have any cable internet and ran out of toilet paper a lot, and one day he was cleaning tables at McDonald's where he worked, picking up french fries that the kids threw all over, and he thought to himself, "This really sucks, I'm so hungry, and nobody ever brings ME any french fries." But did his father go and get him and say "Well, I hope you've learned your lesson, you lazy little twit"? No, he didn't.
The son finally REALIZED that he might get treated better at home than he did in his apartment with his five piggish roommates, and he DECIDED to go home, prepared to live in his parents' garage and sleep under the partially restored Lincoln, but when his father got the collect call and knew that his son had REALIZED what he'd done and made a DECISION for himself, he ran out to meet him, welcomed him home as a son, and ordered in dinner.
Being a good Christian doesn't have to mean being a bad pharmacist. It can mean letting people do what they've decided, and being ready to love them when they come back.
