Another Entry from Fucked-up Morality Theatre:

Jan 30, 2007 11:41

From scarykarrey:

A woman in Florida was jailed for an outstanding warrant after calling the police to report that she had been raped. While in jail for two days, one of the workers there with "religious objections" blocked her from taking the morning after pill as prescribed by a physician ( Read more... )

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christastrophe January 30 2007, 19:30:42 UTC
Dag yo.

I know what you mean, though. I know my company does evil, evil fucking things. Nobody I know or work with does evil things, though (as far as I know), so that's my justification. We even had some sort of inter-company survey that said that people trusted their immediate supervisors but didn't trust the upper management.

But, yeah. I wouldn't work for a company where I'd have to raise my Moral Onjection flag. It makes no sense. I couldn't imagine deciding to work for, say, a super-mega-psychotic church and then having the temerity to complain about having to make copies of the "AIDS is God's Way of Killing Fags" flyers. And, the difference is, I wouldn't be bound by law to make those copies.

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syerbouti January 30 2007, 19:55:02 UTC
*shrug* unfortunately pharmacists aren't bound by law to fill prescriptions, as far as I know.

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christastrophe January 30 2007, 20:00:48 UTC
In some states they are. I know the controversy a while back was about enacting laws to protect them from prosecution if they raised religious objections.

Of course, I don't feel like researching that vague claim, so I'll go ahead and add to whatever's bad about the internet and post this anyway. Take THAT, Jesus!

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