Apparently Arizona believes in religious discrimination against the police
Arizona, not willing to let North Carolina win the week's award uncontested for "letting religious beliefs trump other people's rights and needs," enacted a new law:
"Government shall not deny, revoke or suspend a person’s professional or occupational license, certificate or registration for any of the following and the following are not unprofessional conduct: declining to provide or participate in providing any service that violates the person’s sincerely held religious beliefs except performing the duties of a peace officer."
So doctors, therapists, pharmacists, architects, engineers, anyone who gets a state license who decides that providing a service for you — prescribing or delivering a given drug, treating a particular condition, designing or building a particular building, cutting your hair, etc. — is against their "sincerely held" religious beliefs (because you're a slut, or a homosexual, or an atheist, or a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Catholic, or you're of a sinful color, or you want something that Pastor Bob last Sunday monrning said was sinful) don't have to worry about losing their state-provided licenses or being charged with "unprofessional conduct."
But why include an exception for police officers? Should they be deprived of their religious freedom, too? I mean, maybe they're disgusted that Fred is gay — shouldn't they have the God-Given Religious Freedom to not bother investigating the mugging that Fred reported? Or if Susan is Jewish and wants to complain that her Christian husband stole their child during a custody dispute, shouldn't a good Christian police officer be able to tell her that since she's actually going to Hell, it's best the child be with its father?
Why the hatred for the religious freedoms of police officers, Arizona?
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Arizona Governor Approves Religious Privilege Bills
Yesterday night, Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed two controversial bills, HB 2625 and SB 1365, into law. If you've been keeping up with the controversial things coming out of the Grand Canyon S…
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Don’t these professions each have their own codes of ethics? Or is ethics just something we talk about for the good press?
Pish-tosh, George. These aren’t mere “professional ethics” we’re talking about, it’s DEEP-SEATED AND INVIOLABLE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS THAT TRANSCEND LAW AND ETHICS AND ANYONE’S MORALITY EXCEPT THEIR OWN.
But only when they are conservative Christians. Because I guarantee as soon as someone chooses to exercise these new legal rights in Arizona to refuse service who is Muslim, or Buddhist, or Atheist, or Wiccan, or whatever else, that there will be a serious shitstorm of protest.
I’m sure that Gov. Brewer will soon see the error of her ways, and enable police to exercise their religious conscience rights along with everyone else.
I wouldn’t set foot in AZ if someone paid me a million dollars.
This should make for interesting headlines as it appears that firemen and paramedics aren't excluded. No CPR for Fred. He's gay.
Unreal.
That about sums it up.