morality legislation agenda pbs special

[iftsiga]

I expect this to depress me this evening, even if it doesn't cover anything I don't already know.

+It's on PBS stations anywhere, you can look up showtimes in your area. Should be repeated tomorrow many places. It's short, mostly about South Dakota. Apparently there are some web only bits at http://www.pbs.org/now/ ...The interviewer seems to be restraining herself mightily from giving the smug sanctimonious head of the abstinence education movement a slap with a shoe. ++Alas, there are no "desirious of shoe-slapping" confessions at the website, but there are broader things covered than the televised bit was able to do.

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[simmeringhatred.livejournal.com]

"When is it appropriate for personal morality to become government policy?"

If by "personal morality", we mean "unsubstantiated primitive religious superstition", I would say...
Never. Ever. No government anywhere should endorse any religion or religious worldview at all.

Speaking of primitive superstition, I saw the last bit of the Passion of the Christ on TV last night. Wow. Gotta hate those sneering murdurous Jews.
I cant believe how many people were taken in by that giant mess of pious flummery.

[simmeringhatred.livejournal.com]

Was trying to look up an article on the BMJ that my Dad sent me, but aparently you need to be a subscriber to view it. The address is
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/332/7536/294
If you want to spend $4 reading it. It is about conscientious objection in medicine, namely all the god bothering phramacists and doctors who refuse to prescribe things/ do medical practices that are contrary to their superstitions. The general gist of the article is that it is fine to object to doing something, as long as the person who wants the drug/proceedure/whatever is not inconvenienced at all, and the service/product is freely available elsewhere. If it is not, or if it would seriously unfairly inconvenience them, then yu have no right to object. If your conscience will absolutely not allow you to prescribe drugs/perform medical proceedures that the law says are fine, then you should find another line of work, because your refusal constitutes gross medical negligence.