Emergency Contraception
Binky aggregates a number of discussions to provide an absolutely stellar overview of various moral inconsistencies, terminological difficulties, and potential legal problems arising from permitting pharmacists to resist, on moral grounds, dispensing the legally prescribable "morning after" pill. I'm still mulling, so I've nothing in particular to say, but if you're interested in the topic this is a must-read.
posted by Moon | 10/26/2005 10:46:00 AM
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I guess the sum total is: let's start marking off professions that committed Christians cannot have...
HR (diversity req'ts)
teacher (esp. science)
pharmacist
doctor (before too long)
government servant
chaplain (of any sort, apparently)
and by the way, most of the issues have happened recently, so you can't "not enter" a profession you entered 40 years ago.
Forgive my effrontery, if that it be, but as Binky and others ably point out, in most professions there are ways to avoid putting oneself into moral pickles. Not every pharmacist works at a pharmacy counter, not every HR professional works in a field that is subject to "diversity req'rs," not every teacher works in a public shool, not every doctor performs abortions . . . and frankly, I have no idea what you're talking about with regard to chaplains.
Moreover, even if you're right, even if all of these professions are entirely unsuitable for Christians due to conflicts between the law and their religious commitments, I don't remember the New Testament ever saying anything about faith being easy, or observance requiring anything other than abject sacrifice.
I don't see Nevada Christians bitching about ho their religion precludes them from engaging in the oldest profession. Every choice precludes others. That's in the very nature of things. And faith is a choice.
In the meantime, I see an awful lot of Christians who would describe themselves as "committed" whose idea of charity is dropping a weekly twenty in the offering plate, and who utterly ignore scriptural admonitions concerning the accumulation of wealth. I see them, in a true spirit of idolatry, guarding jealously every penny and declining even to give the secularly suggsted of 10% to those in less advantageous circumstances than they enjoy. I see an awful lot of "committed" Christians arguing for further restrictions on our already woeful (as a percentage of GDP) foreign aid allocations, and conditioning their charity, when they give it, on so many non-scriptural criteria as to make a joke of the enterprise.
Perhaps you'll pardon my skepticism about the supposed plight of the Christians.
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