Reply #15: Are Scientologist pharmacists allowed to refuse to dispense antidepressants?

[KnaveRupe]

Are 7th-day Adventist doctors allowed to refuse to give ANY medical treatment?

This is asinine.

If you have a problem performing the duties of your job on religious grounds, find a new job.

If I'm an Orthodox Jew, I'm not going to go get a job at Porky McShrimp's Ribs and Shellfish Emporium restaurant, then refuse to wait on any tables because I find it offensive.

If I'm a Hindu, I'm not going to get a job at a slaughterhouse, then refuse to kill cows.

If I'm an Orthodox Mormon, it would be stupid of me to take a job as a barista at a Starbucks and refuse to sell coffee.

If I'm opposed to abortion on religious grounds, why would I take a job at a facility that performs abortions? If I'm opposed to dispensing birth control on religious grounds, why would I take a job as a pharmacist?

Hey - here's an argument to throw at any fundies espousing this: tell them to exercise a free-market-based solution! They are free to open up their own Christian abortion clinics that don't perform abortions, and compete with those clinics that DO. They can open up their Jesus-based pharmacies that refuse to sell condoms, sponges and birth-control pills, and compete against those businesses that DO.

I mean, Jesus *is* a Laissez-Faire capitalist, right?