Latest Dispatches from Jesusland: Revolt of the Fundie Pharmacists!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Yep, it's pretty interesting to see some Commie/socdems here defend the fire-at-will procedures, while DanS is defending the little man. Amazing

This is not fire-at-will but fire-for-cause

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DanS


Well, there lies the rub. Some contraceptives are abortifacients or potential abortifacients. Whether or not it is a "reasonable expectation" for an employer to expect that his employer will sell these drugs is a matter of opinion.

No it isn't. They're medications, they're prescribed by a doctor, they're legal and they're being requested by a patient.

Keep twisting, Dan.

[DanS]

The guvm't sets reasonable contract terms all the time.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DanS
Whether or not it is a "reasonable expectation" for an employer to expect that his employer will sell these drugs is a matter of opinion.

No, it isn't. If the drugs are legal and the pharmacy carries them, it is perfectly reasonable that they expect their employees to dispense them.

I'd love to see a convenience store clerk try to keep his job if he refused to sell cigarettes or alcohol to customers out of religious convictions. You think he would be able to?

[KrazyHorse]

I guess it's time to gang-rape DanS now...

[DanS]

They're medications

That are also abortifacients or potential abortifacients. Reasonable people disagree on the issue of abortion.

[KrazyHorse]

Reasonable people disagree on the morality of handling pork or drinking alcohol.

Until they make booze or bacon illegal a supermarket clerk has to sell them.

[Drake Tungsten]

I guess it's time to gang-rape DanS now...

You can count me out on that one. I'm sure Boris will more than make up for my absence, though...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DanS
That are also abortifacients or potential abortifacients. Reasonable people disagree on the issue of abortion.

Which is entirely irrelevant to whether or not a pharmacist should be expected by his employer to fulfill his job duties or not when it comes to dispensing legal drugs carried by the pharmacy.

[St Leo]

Reasonable people disagree on the issue of eating pork, but Jewish grocery clerks still can't refuse to sell pork.

Edit: KrazyHorse is a big fat doodoohead.

[DanS]

I'd love to see a convenience store clerk try to keep his job if he refused to sell cigarettes or alcohol to customers out of religious convictions. You think he would be able to?

I don't know. I've refused to do something that I found morally objectionable and was not fired.

[Dr Strangelove]

What if the pharmacist owned the store?

I might also add that a proprietary employer can only go so far with regards to ordering its professional employees to perform services that the professional employee feels uncomfortable with. My employer couldn't force me to deliver babies in her clinic.

[DanS]

Reasonable people disagree on the issue of eating pork, but Jewish grocery clerks still can't refuse to sell pork.

As far as I know, Jews don't believe that it is wrong for gentiles to eat pork.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DanS
I don't know. I've refused to do something that I found morally objectionable and was not fired.

So? No one said the company was obligated to fire someone. If they're willing to accomodate them, that's up to the company. But the point was that they don't have to.

Are you sick or something? I've never seen you make such atrocious arguments before.

[KrazyHorse]

We've already been over that. I don't really feel that the pharmacist should have any responsibility in that case other than to give the prescription back and refer to another pharmacy...