The Trump administration on Thursday announced the creation of a new conscience and religious freedom division aimed at protecting doctors, nurses and other health-care workers who decline to participate in care that violates their moral or religious convictions.I can picture this scene. Julie gets hit by a car. EMT's show up. One of them says "It's a tranny. I ain't touching him. Goddamn freak." And I will die because he was allowed to discriminate. Because of his "morality."
Thursday, January 18, 2018
"Forget it. You're black (or whatever) and I think you are immoral."
How dumb is this?
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On 60 Minutes a couple weeks back, there was a former skinhead, who said that nowadays, skinheads are encouraged to dress like the public, and get jobs as cops. Now we can have skinhead, and other hateful, nurses, doctors, and EMT workers.
ReplyDeleteAnd I say this even though at first glance at your scenario, I thought -- but that's unconstitutional. You're the lawyer, but it seems to me that if an unconstitutional law or procedure gets put into place, those who follow its guidelines are off the hook until the law or procedure is overturned and defunk.
A huge problem is that such a law or procedure opens the doors to hateful people seeing those jobs as possibilities for themselves. Overturning a hateful and unconstitutional law does not fire the hateful workers who in the meantime became nurses, doctors, and EMTs. What results is the problem that Black Lives Matter is facing, police organizations that have accommodated haters, such that skinheads feel welcome, not outed.