Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Colorado Baker

[Pat Mustard]

That's why it's bullcrap to make exceptions for "strongly held beliefs", because they can be literally anything. It's unsecular to insist they would have to be religious beliefs, and someone could claim to have just found religion and decided that they don't want to serve people under 5'4", or whatever.

I'm feeling the same way about the conscience exemption the government are planning to bring in for the forthcoming Irish abortion legislation, allowing medical practitioners to opt out of the service if they have "deeply held religious views" on abortion (some doctors are going so far as to even demand that they can refuse to refer a woman onto a doctor willing to do their job).

First of all, these doctors are now going the religious views route because they lost. During the referendum campaign they argued against abortion on "medical" grounds. Second those views are recent (in terms of the rcc) and are to do wiyh keeping women inferion not protecting foetuses. And finally the most damning, laws like this open tye floodgates. Suppose there's a surgeon who's a jehovah's and refuses to give patients blood transfusions during operations even at the risk of them dying. Now he'll have precedent.