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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNC Lawmakers Want Hospitals To Be Able To Turn Away Gay Patients
http://www.newnownext.com/north-carolina-lawmakers-want-hospitals-to-be-able-to-turn-away-gay-patients/03/2015/Every day we hear about another state trying to enact legislation to allow citizens to discriminate against LGBT people.
Now its North Carolinas turn, as the Legislature is considering House Bill 348, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was introduced on Tuesday. (An identical bill, SB 550 was introduced in the state Senate on Thursday.)...
If signed, the law would allow LGBT Carolinians to be turned away or fired by shops, restaurants, hotels, schools and even hospitals.
Pharmacists in the Tar Heel State could refuse to dispense contraceptives, infertility drugs, HIV treatments and transplant-rejection drugsas all are incompatible with various religious denominations.
Now its North Carolinas turn, as the Legislature is considering House Bill 348, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was introduced on Tuesday. (An identical bill, SB 550 was introduced in the state Senate on Thursday.)...
If signed, the law would allow LGBT Carolinians to be turned away or fired by shops, restaurants, hotels, schools and even hospitals.
Pharmacists in the Tar Heel State could refuse to dispense contraceptives, infertility drugs, HIV treatments and transplant-rejection drugsas all are incompatible with various religious denominations.
Hospitals?!
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NC Lawmakers Want Hospitals To Be Able To Turn Away Gay Patients (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2015
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Great., same state that is making it impossible for black people to vote
NoJusticeNoPeace
Mar 2015
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NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)1. Great., same state that is making it impossible for black people to vote
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)2. wtf? That does it. Off the internets for the afternoon.
seriously, wtf?
Its the first freedom. Its what a lot of people came to North Carolina for originally, was to have religious freedom, at that time from the Church of England, Stam said.
Yes, you can have your religion but you can't use it to hurt others. I mean wtf?
gordianot
(15,245 posts)3. Of course they want such a law, they have Republican Ignorance Law envy.
The ignorance and outrage can only grow, a bigot can only live so long without overt discrimination and someone to scapegoat all their inadequacies.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)4. Sharia Law is alive and well in the U.S.A
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)5. Say What?
What about the HYPOCRITICAL OATH, oh wait never mind, they got that one covered.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)6. The bigotry and stupidity just never stop, do they?