Posted on 08/19/2008 5:09:50 AM PDT by Apollos21K
A state Supreme Court today ruled that constitutional freedom of religion does not permit doctors to refuse services to homosexual clients, even when those services would violate doctors' moral and religious convictions.
In a unanimous decision, the California State Supreme Court ruled against two Christian doctors at a San Diego area fertility clinic who refused to provide a medical procedure for artificial insemination to a lesbian couple.
According to court documents, the doctors claimed their religious convictions prohibited them from using intrauterine insemination (IUI) on any unmarried woman, regardless of sexual orientation.
The court, however, agreed with the lesbian couple that Dr. Douglas Fenton and Dr. Christine Brody had refused the treatment because of the lesbian couple's homosexuality and ruled that in doing so, the doctors violated California's Unruh Civil Rights Act...
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Unfortunately, you are correct. Our Founding Fathers, along with generations of Americans are turning over in their graves....
I’d like to see mosques ordered to perform gay weddings, as well as women in non-hijab allowed to attend.
CA citizens can initiate amendments to the state constitution. There must be someone out there who could get the ball rolling to get an amendment on the ballot that would overturn the Unruh law or whatever it's called. I can't believe that the majority of CA voters support a law as outrageous as that.
The net result of this will be fewer doctors providing the service at all.
The people of California make the people of Maryland look like Jesse Helms voters.
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