A Christian attorney suggests that a ruling Tuesday by the California Supreme Court legitimizes discrimination against individuals who claim their religious convictions prevent them from providing certain professional services.
A California lesbian has settled a lawsuit against doctors who refused — on the basis of their Christian faith — to provide her artificial insemination services. The case went to the California Supreme Court (see details from Associated Press below) which ruled that doctors, in spite of their faith, cannot violate state anti-discrimination laws that are designed, in part, to protect homosexuals.
While that ends the case, Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute says questions remain unresolved.
“The big question is the extent to which religious objection will be defeated in the future in other cases where you have institutions having religious convictions against providing other services,” the attorney explains. “For example, a religious hospital not wishing to provide abortions, even though [abortion could be] potentially mandated by some future law.”
Dacus feels the court is saying the lesbian, who has since had three children, has won the case, while discrimination against doctors of faith is legal.
“No American,” he says, “should ever have to be in a position where they have to choose between performing their skills and tasks and being able to follow their faith and their convictions.”
Dacus feels the lawsuit was an attempt to further the homosexual agenda, and intimidate and coerce individuals in the private sector to the point where they are unable to live and express their faith.
(Source: OneNewsNow.com)