What a load of crap!  Yeah, and it’s Tom Clancy’s fault for educating terrorists so they could more easily attack us on September 11!

I wonder how this lawsuit is going to play out?  Walgreen’s already has one of those stupid policies allowing pharmacists to opt out of filling prescriptions they find morally wrong as long as someone else is there to fill it.  If not, then they are required to fill the prescription.  Sounds good to me, but then I think this entire lawsuit and these policies are bullshit.  Personally, I don’t think any employer should have to give this option to their paid staff.   I also don’t buy the whole religious freedom line either.   Medical practitioners, be they doctor, nurse, physician’s assistant, or pharmacist, should be putting the well-being of the patient first.  The patient in front of them, not the possible patient that may or may not be growing inside the woman.  That’s their job, and if their religion doesn’t allow them to do that, then they should get a different job.  And no, I don’t think that’s anti-religion.  What I think is anti-religion is all the moral assholes who want to make victims of rape and incest who may not even have a life growing inside of them yet suffer more than they already have.  I think Walgreens made every effort to allow these pharmacists to abide by their beliefs:  they weren’t fired, and they were offered transfers to a neighboring state without the Illinois requirement (I’m ashamed to says it’s Missouri) that wouldn’t even have required them to move. 

If Walgreens loses this case is could have far-reaching repercussions.  This case involves emergency contraception, but what’s next:  condoms, birth control pills, KY Jelly!  Then there are other issues.  If religion is used by people to opt out of this task, then what’s to stop employees from suing companies for requiring them to work on Sunday or Wednesday evening?  What if an employee decides he or she cannot ring up liquor?  The courts, so far, have held that employers only have to fulfill reasonable requests as concerns religion and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to request an employee to fill a prescription when there is no else available to do so.

I just may have to watch the Oscars this year.  They are looking to be the gayest show ever!  Brokeback Mountain is a hit; the film won the Producers Guild award, making it a sure bet to take the Oscar for Best Picture; and now the Directors Guild has chosen Ang Lee as filmmaker of the year, making him a near shoe-in for the Best Director Oscar.  Heath Ledger has been getting a lot of attention for Best Actor, but he seems to be losing out to Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote.  I’ve seen Hoffman’s performance, and it’s great, but I haven’t seen Ledger in Brokeback since I have to drive 100 miles in order to see it.  Even if Ledger doesn’t win Best Actor, the film will most likely win Director, Picture, and Screenplay Adaptation.  That will be something, I think.