That old fundie work ethic.

What is it with fundies and their absolute refusals to do their jobs?

First we had pharmacists refusing to do their goddamn job and fill birth control and EC prescriptions because being so complicit in the death of a fetus or even the prevention of conception (plus the bull that it can be an abortifacient) is against their morals.

Now, we have doctors refusing to treat women in a number of reproductive senses. No emergency contraceptives for rape victims. No IVF for lesbians. No physicals for adoptions for unmarried women. No birth control. No abortion referrals. The list continues. It's extremely disgusting and, frankly, evil.

I would ask why someone would take a job that interferes with their beliefs, why they refuse to refer patients to a doctor who will do their job completely, why they aren't upfront with their limitations so that women needing these services can make other arrangements without being completely humiliated, but I know the answer.

They want to humiliate these sinning whores. They want to save babies they refuse to prevent or take care of, their mothers be damned. They live in a false sense of reality where refusing to provide these services mean that these women go back, find Jesus, and never get the medical procedure they came in for.

Now, in the medical field, when you can't complete a procedure, you send the patient to a doctor who can. Why not apply the same thing here rather than being a smug fundie asshole about the whole thing? Why do they delight so much in other's unhappiness? Doesn't seem godly, but we knew that.

I'm personally of the opinion that you have the obligation to your patient first, and that just providing an abortion referral or HBC doesn't make you complicit in their action. You were completing the perfectly legal action that is part of your job (nazi comparisons don't apply here). Don't like it, change jobs, or specialties (I'm pretty sure that urologists don't have this issue!).

While I think it's rather asshole-ish to refuse a service that you are supposed to provide (in a lot of ways, these uber-religious gyns refuse to do about half of their job while treating some of their patients poorly), but I can understand not wanting to be complicit in a sinful action. But, you still have the obligation to refer them somewhere else, rather than be a prat and just leave. Especially when the patient paid money to see you and have a service provided. Without any other warning, I'd half say that that is fraud.

It's rather upsetting that it's only now becoming a real issue. That we're the only developed nation on Earth that is slipping backward in terms of women's rights. True, only a small percentage of women likely ever face this, but that's enough for me, and this number is likely to only grow as fundies push their children to go into medicine and law just so they can force their beliefs down the public's throat.

Plus, if the only gynocologist in your area is a fundamentalist, you're stuck with him unless you have money and the ability to drive hours to the next doctor, hoping that the fundie trend doesn't continue. It crosses a line into my rights, my beliefs, and the quality of my care, which is sacrificed so some fundie can make a statement. Gah.

And, lastly, we have the kicker: a Massachusetts law student who failed the state's bar exam by one question. He's suing the state because this question had to do with the state's gay marriage and adoption laws. Being, the good little bigot that he is, his Christian morals couldn't allow him to support this immorality, and therefore could not answer the question.

Now, this is obviously both an entitlement temper tantrum and a fish for a Supreme Court case that can strike down Massachusetts's gay marriage laws.

Granted, that question isn't really the reason he failed. He failed because he got that question AND a bunch of other questions wrong (he missed something like 130 points out of 400!). You cannot single out one specific question and claim that that question was the one that made you fail, not the others you missed.

While the doctor morality debate is a somewhat squiggy gray area, this debate flat isn't. A lawyer's job is to know the law, whether he agrees with it or not. Even though there are laws you may disagree with, they are still laws, and while a lawyer can decline cases based upon his morals, but it doesn't make the laws go away. You can't make it go away. Your personal beliefs do not grant you the ability to ignore laws you do not like. So, this case should likely go nowhere, because he chose to not even learn about something he knew would be on the test. Sounds like his fault to me!

Granted, this is a fundie that didn't get the passing grade he felt entitled to, and had a little tantrum because it was obviously the fault of the gays, not that he just didn't learn enough material to pick and choose his questions. You can't just close your eyes and demand that the rest of the world be shielded from you because you don't like it or believe it to be immoral. Life is give and take, especially in our society, you can't remold it to your wishes, and people that claim persecution because life doesn't work to their wants is very aggravating, especially as a member of a minority religious group that is continually badmouthed.

Though, I really want to say that things I'm bad at are against my religion and that persecuting me for refusing to answer questions on the said topics is me remaining faithful to my religion. Those algebra problems are against my religion, so I refuse to answer them. Wait, why can't I get my math degree? Please stop oppressing me!