In February 2012, a federal court struck down the law as unconstitutional. The court found “abundant evidence” that the law was designed to force religious pharmacists and pharmacy owners to violate their faith.
Posted on 06/29/2016 1:50:27 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a case challenging a Washington state law that forces a family-owned pharmacy to dispense emergency contraceptives is an “ominous sign” for those who value religious freedom, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said.
“If this is a sign of how religious liberty claims will be treated in the years ahead, those who value religious freedom have cause for great concern,” Alito said Tuesday in a critical dissent.
Alito was joined in his dissent by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Clarence Thomas, falling one justice short of the four needed for the court to accept a case.
The case involves the Storman family, owners of Ralph’s Thriftway, a small, family-run grocery store and pharmacy in Olympia, Wash. In 2007, after Washington state passed a law that requires all pharmacies to dispense “all lawfully prescribed drugs or devices” in a timely manner to all customers, the Stormans found themselves in the cultural crosshairs.
Because of their Christian belief that life begins at conception, the Stormans objected to dispensing drugs such as Plan B that they believe aid in the destruction of human life.
Under the state law, denying Plan B could result in the Stormans losing their pharmacy license.
The Stormans then entered a long legal battle. In February 2012, a federal court struck down the law as unconstitutional. The court found “abundant evidence” that the law was designed to force religious pharmacists and pharmacy owners to violate their faith.
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We can thank Lyndon B. Johnson and his so called "great society." The government replaced the father.
Mark
Let the pagans burn
"Speaks to my condition," as the Quakers say.
We organized a Religious Liberty rally here in Johnson City TN 5 years ago. One of our speakers, a young lawyer who does pro-bono work for a religious liberty org, noted that if we don't actually *exercise* our religious liberty --- if we don't pro-actively, individually and as churches, stand up and do stuff--- speak, write, publish, display, give, train, organize, initiate, every kind of activity that manifests our faith by word and deed --- we are unfit for "liberty," whatever the law says.
We should do everything that's legal. Everything that goes right up to the line, And everything that goes just a bit over the line, just to maintain muscle tone. (I'm not talking about crime, or egregious defiance for no reason. I'm talking about stuff like: organizing at weekly Pray at the Flag Pole student gathering at the High School. Handing out paperback New Testaments at the graduation banquet!!)
And the authorities have to know that there will be a swift, certain, and unified response to all oppressions, e.h. laws that say pharmacists must sell contraceptives and abortifacients or lose their licenses.
It's ridiculous t think we can get good laws, or that any manner of laws would "protect" us, if we're basically not "exercising" that "Free Exercise".
She was absolutely right.
And that was five years ago. There hasn't been another Religious Liberty rally here since then.
Why? Is there a law against it?
Or is it maybe because of our cowardice and sloth?
In February 2012, a federal court struck down the law as unconstitutional. The court found “abundant evidence” that the law was designed to force religious pharmacists and pharmacy owners to violate their faith.
I often wonder if JFK would have treaded the same path that LBJ ended up doing.
<>Under the state law, denying Plan B could result in the Stormans losing their pharmacy license.<>
And so begins the American version of Germany’s Nuremberg Laws.
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In the 1930s, when the Nazis began persecuting the Jews, most Germans didn’t care. The people were nominal Lutherans, and not that religious to begin with. Voters elected HItler because they worshipped the state, not God
The Christian culture will have to go to Christian buying clubs the way that many Christians have gone to Christian schools.
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