Wednesday, August 17, 2005

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Conscientious objectors to moral diversity in this country are obligated to allow free-will in the private decisions of others. Recently some anti-abortion pharmacists from none other than that refuge of freedom, Texas, refused to fill birth control pills because they said it was tantamount to killing. In Oregon some right-wing pharmacists decided they would not sell certain drugs to people that they suspected were going to use it to commit suicide. What a dilemma. I guess one could use most any pill, alcohol, cigarettes, or Twinkies in large enough quantities if they wanted to commit suicide. What would you do? As an ACLU Libertarian, I feel that if they don’t want to fill a prescription maybe they shouldn’t be a pharmacist. What is it about right-wingers that make them want to dictate their morals to all those around them? Why can’t they accept that people are different and are allowed to have the freedom and liberty to live the way they want? That was generally the case until “w” and his right-wing moralists took control of the country. If you don’t want smut on the radio don’t listen to Howard Stern or Rush/O’Reilly. If you are against pornography don’t subscribe to “Hustler.” If you are anti-abortion, don’t go to an abortion clinic for a pap smear. If you are a right-wing Republican fundamentalist evangelical and don’t believe in science, separation of Church and State, evolution, sex-ed, birth control, energy conservation, economic justice, truth about global warming, brain dead patients, WMD / unjust war and intellectual understanding of the Bible and History, then keep attending fundamentalist Churches and voting for Bush family Republicans. If you are a Biblical literalist and believe the world will end soon, live by the Levitical laws, handle snakes, drink poison to prove your faith and believe America should be a Christian Theocracy, fine. You have the freedom to choose what you believe and how you want to live. Just don’t expect me to agree with you because the Constitution sure doesn’t.

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