The Ponderosa: The right to force you to sin

Death before Dhimmitude

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Thursday, February 02, 2006

The right to force you to sin

MA Women Sue Wal-Mart Over Emergency Contraception

Three Massachusetts women have filed suit againt Wal-Mart because the store's pharmacy does not sell an emergency contraceptive.

The suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court seeks a court order compelling Wal-Mart to stock the so-called "morning after pill," in its 44 Massachusetts pharmacies.

The plaintiffs are Katrina McCarty of Somerville, Julie Battel of Boston, and Dr. Rebekah Gee of Boston. All three were turned away when they tried to buy emergency contraception pills at area Wal-Marts.

Gee says she regularly prescribes the morning after pill to her patients as a stand by emergency contraceptive...but when she went into a local Walmart with a prescription for it, she was told they couldn't and wouldn't fill it.

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Lessee if we have this straight: It's acceptable to force PRIVATE corporations to to go against their principles ... But listening in on communications between our enemies abroad and their pals within our borders, is an outrage?

Just wanted to make sure we had that right ...

Wotta bunch of FLAKES!

The Ponderosa

Thursday, February 02, 2006

The right to force you to sin

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