Intolerance of Religion/Christianity?

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42. It's ALL ABOUT "MY religion trumps YOUR rights."

That seems to be IT. The crux of it.

I personally would love to see the right to choose being factored in here, and added to the list of reasons why this is such a horribly bad and intolerable law.

The same legalized discrimination that would allow a granny in a flower shop to deny a gay couple her services to create flower arrangements for their wedding could, and I strongly believe WOULD, be used to deny a woman going to a fundie pharmacist the right to have her contraception prescription filled, if the pharmacist whined that it was against his religion.

And knowing the opposition we face on this - I wouldn't put it past ANY of 'em to try to figure out a way to weasel out of having to serve ANYBODY they thought was against their religion. Remember - these folks paint with an extraordinarily broad brush. Because it's their religion and they seem to be given over to paranoia about always being persecuted, I would EXPECT them to use ANYTHING they thought might work for their cause to get their way, and further ghettoize and victimize people they didn't agree with. Muslims? Hey, it's against MY religion to serve those who serve "that false god..." What about a Jewish person doing that to a Christian - OR a Christian doing that to a Jewish person? So far, that's exactly what they're entitled to do.

WE as women and as progressives/liberals/left-of-centers NEED to start lumping the perils facing the right to choose in with this, because it WILL be affected. And we need to start chipping away at that ongoing attack on Roe v Wade. Otherwise we're gonna lose it. Roe v Wade is ON THE ROPES - NOW.