EMT refuses to take woman to abortion clinic

Fire the bastards, all of them.

For several years now the religious right has used the charge of "religious discrimination" to cover pretty much every single thing they want to do to discriminate against others. Stop me from firing an employee simply because he's gay? Religious discrimination! Require EMTs in Michigan to pick up sick gay people whether they like or not? Religious discrimination! Require a pharmacist to fill your legal prescription regardless of what he thinks of you or your medical condition? Religious discrimination!

Why draw the line there? Some people still hate blacks and Jews and Irishmen - and some even hate the religious right - expressly because they believe religion tells them such people are evil. Are they to be next? Oh no, religious right advocates say, that's totally different. They would never target blacks or Jews or Irishmen (Muslims, however, are an entirely different matter). But the question needs to be asked, why not target them, and more importantly, how do you draw the line once you head down this path? If David Duke thinks blacks are inherently evil because he thinks his religion tells him so, aren't we impinging on Duke's religious beliefs (however wrong-headed) by telling him not to discriminate against blacks?

In my interpretation of my beliefs, the religious right leaders pushing such bigotry are going straight to hell, and what if I think it's religious discrimination to force me to pay taxes in order to provide religious fundamentalists with government services? Maybe we should sue the government to stop paving the road leading to Jerry Falwell's house...