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Well said Mr. Allen,thank you.

There's a fatal flaw to your argument. If the garbage man takes the job knowing he's going to have to pick up dead animals, then fine. But if the garbage man takes the job thinking he's just picking up trash, and then somebody tells him he has to pick up dead bodies as well......

Well, that's another story.

A lot of pharmacists received their training and their jobs long before a morning after birth control pill.

You shouldn't be able to force people to do things that are against their religious beliefs, when they've been doing their jobs just fine for years.

As far as Viagra goes, the Catholic church hasn't come out and said that using Viagara is a sin. They have come out against birth control in the past.

Well said.

Anonymous,
If doctors followed your advice would there be no organ transplants or other medical advances from the last half century. You do not stop learning just because you got your degree. If you are in a job that is not expanding and requiring more of you that job will soon be obsolete. If you're not willing to grow with the job you will probably not be needed. If, for any reason, you can't grow with the job you need to find one you can grow with.

The way I see it, by not filling the prescription, the pharmacist is pushing "their" religious beliefs on others. Respect others beliefs...fill the prescription, that's the customer's choice to use birth control, not the pharmacist's.

There are pharmacists at the next store down the block if you so choose. Take your business there. You can find hypocrisy everywhere if you choose to look for it. Professors and teachers who refuse to teach or allow controversial subjects because they disagree with the subject matter is an example. Or news reporters who downplay or ignore opposing views on news stories is another example. I am by no means a religious person. But if the "thought police" find no room in this great country for opposing views and morals, and their only response is police and political enforcement of only their views, then we are no longer a free and just society.

David, I think we are not discussing the "thought police" but rather the "action police". Any man, woman or child is free to think what they please. The issue at hand is when one executes thoughts into action.

As some one pointed out in another post, pharmacists are in a service industry. They are licensed by the state of NC and have a code of conduct. While they are within their rights to think, believe, behave in a given way socially, they voluntarily give up that right when they swear to abide by the code of conduce in order to get licensure. To renig just because they can't keep their end of the agreement is to risk revocation of that license.

You can't board a cruise ship voluntarily, get into the middle of the ocean, change your mind and demand to return to port. Life does not work that way and it is high time the offending pharmacists learned that.

If the argument is that you can't force these pharmacists to do something against their religious beliefs then why should the pharmacists be able to inflict their religious beliefs on others? Isn't that kind of hypocritical? I agree that they should do their job and leave the moralizing out of it.

What if I'm in the property management business and my religious belief is that people should not cohabitate? Can I deny an unmarried or a gay couple an apartment? Definitely not, even though there is actually an antiquated law in NC against cohabitation. Nor should I be able to; any more than a pharmacist should be able to refuse to dispense legal medication prescribed by my doctor.

I sympathize with their position, but I don't believe they have the right to prevent me from obtaining whatever medication my doctor deems appropriate and necessary for my situation.

I feel that if you own property, you should be able to choose whoever you want to live in it. Even if that means discrimination.

Any man, woman or child is free to think what they please. The issue at hand is when one executes thoughts into action.

I remember freedom of speech and bear arms and all that stuff, but I don't remember anything about the freedom to think. How bout a new amendment: the freedom to do whatever drug you want.