Fundamentalists Have Gone Too Far?

[conuly]

What, now? Now they've gone too far? They didn't go too far when some of them started refusing to treat rape victims in hospitals, they didn't go too far when they started refusing to fill standard BC prescriptions, they didn't go too far when they started getting laws passed to allow people to not do their fucking jobs, but this? This is going too far? The guy isn't saying anything that they haven't been saying for years - disease is a punishment for your sins. Unhappiness is a punishment for your sins. Being a self-righteous little prick is a punishment for your sins. Having to spend eternity in the presence of other self-righteous, sanctimoneous little jerks would also be a punishment for your sins, but I'm not sure they'll realize that the joke's on them until it's too late.

I have ceased to even be shocked. Something... something's gotta change, but I don't see how. I'm thinking, though, that it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

Comments

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Someone said his refusing to fill the scrip is "okay" now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I had thought that only applied to birth-control scrips? Which, I am fairly certain, Valtrex is not.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

It pisses me off that there's so much debate over getting BC filled, but anything else will have EVERYONE up in arms.

We were all waiting for some pharmacist to do something like this, just to show the people who say "you can't force pharmacists to do their jobs!" the illogic in their statement.

[conuly]

It's not okay! It may, in some benighted places, be legal, but it's far from okay.

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

That is vile. It's one thing (And still stupidly WRONG, in my opinion) to refuse the prescrption, but ti tear it up? I'd be going to the pharmacy and telling this asshat where to go. Grrrrrrrr.

[conuly]

No, we were watiing for somebody to refuse to dispense viagra, or to not sell cigarrettes, that sort of thing.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I was just using the wording the commenter used. XD I find it far from okay, as well.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Jesus died so that we wouldn't have to be punished for our sins. Perhaps I'm reading the bible wrong. Let me look:

nope, I'm ont seeing anything about jesus hanging on the cross and the clouds parting to show god screaming "Look, you bastards! Look! Do you see this! This is what I'm-a gonna go do to you if'n you don't repent in my name. This will be your punishment! Take it, you bastards, take it!"

I mean, I looked really hard. There's nothing like that.

[maelorin]

i'm amused that the guy contemplates your fine nation sliding further into some cesspool but thinks a bit of a whinge will do much about it.

things are gonna get much, much worse before anyone or anything will change the direction we're all heading for in our flaming hand-baskets of self-righteous doom.

[maelorin]

it's not illegal, or at least improper, for the pharmacist to tear up a legal prescription?

i'd be asking for the prescription back. it's not the pharmacist's property.

so tearing it up is destruction of someone else's property ... which is a criminal offence ... and potentially grounds for a civil suit in damages.

not to mention interfering in medical treatment.


if only i were a lawyer over there ...

[yadfothgildloc.livejournal.com]

I think it's more of a "straw that broke the camel's back" thing. He could tolerate concientious refusal to fill morally objectionable (to them) prescriptions, but tearing up a non-questionable one?

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Someone said his refusing to fill the scrip is "okay" now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I had thought that only applied to birth-control scrips? Which, I am fairly certain, Valtrex is not.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

It pisses me off that there's so much debate over getting BC filled, but anything else will have EVERYONE up in arms.

We were all waiting for some pharmacist to do something like this, just to show the people who say "you can't force pharmacists to do their jobs!" the illogic in their statement.

[conuly]

It's not okay! It may, in some benighted places, be legal, but it's far from okay.

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

That is vile. It's one thing (And still stupidly WRONG, in my opinion) to refuse the prescrption, but ti tear it up? I'd be going to the pharmacy and telling this asshat where to go. Grrrrrrrr.

[conuly]

No, we were watiing for somebody to refuse to dispense viagra, or to not sell cigarrettes, that sort of thing.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

I was just using the wording the commenter used. XD I find it far from okay, as well.

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Jesus died so that we wouldn't have to be punished for our sins. Perhaps I'm reading the bible wrong. Let me look:

nope, I'm ont seeing anything about jesus hanging on the cross and the clouds parting to show god screaming "Look, you bastards! Look! Do you see this! This is what I'm-a gonna go do to you if'n you don't repent in my name. This will be your punishment! Take it, you bastards, take it!"

I mean, I looked really hard. There's nothing like that.

[maelorin]

i'm amused that the guy contemplates your fine nation sliding further into some cesspool but thinks a bit of a whinge will do much about it.

things are gonna get much, much worse before anyone or anything will change the direction we're all heading for in our flaming hand-baskets of self-righteous doom.

[maelorin]

it's not illegal, or at least improper, for the pharmacist to tear up a legal prescription?

i'd be asking for the prescription back. it's not the pharmacist's property.

so tearing it up is destruction of someone else's property ... which is a criminal offence ... and potentially grounds for a civil suit in damages.

not to mention interfering in medical treatment.


if only i were a lawyer over there ...

[yadfothgildloc.livejournal.com]

I think it's more of a "straw that broke the camel's back" thing. He could tolerate concientious refusal to fill morally objectionable (to them) prescriptions, but tearing up a non-questionable one?