If you are a doctor here in the Golden State, it seems that the supreme court of California has decided that even if your religious values compel you to act in a certain way, you must provide medical services to an individual, even if such services violate your conscience:
.- The California Supreme Court’s unanimous Monday decision against two doctors who declined to artificially inseminate a lesbian could have significant implications for religious freedom in the United States. Critics have attacked the decision, which said religious freedom and free speech guarantees do not exempt the doctors from complying with anti-discrimination laws protecting sexual orientation.Read the rest of the story at the Catholic News Agency.
Drs. Christine Brody and Douglas Fenton had claimed the First Amendment’s protections of freedom of religion and free speech shielded them from a lawsuit filed in 2001 by Guadalupe Benitez, a lesbian who had asked them to provide artificial insemination services, Cybercast News Service reports.
Ad majorem Dei gloriam,
Dean
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