Hearing concludes in Madison in pharmacist case

This blog honors and celebrates the free expression of moral belief and religious conviction. I believe that no citizen should be bound by law or terms of employment to perform an act which contradicts transcendent, categorical imperative.

That being said, this pharmacist was kind of an asshole, don’t you think? It was one thing to decline to fill this woman’s contraceptive presciption, another thing entirely to seize it so she couldn’t get it filled elsewhere. The imperative was his, not hers; she’s not bound by his beliefs, any more than he by hers.

I think he deserves to have his licensed pulled: By trying to keep his hands morally clean, he dirtied them when he denied another the obverse freedom of belief and choice he claimed for himself.