"Freedom:" The Right of Religious Fundamentalists to Discriminate Against Everyone Else

by Amanda Marcotte

Conscience clauses. They practically have the term "slippery slope" built right into their definition. Anti-choicers started by pushing the idea that pharmacists shouldn't have to sell contraception if it somehow violates their heartfelt repulsion to what they believe is unapologetic sluttiness. But did anyone think it would stop there? Once the idea got loose that you have a right to not do your job if you disapprove of a client's sex life, the doors were thrown wide open to all sorts of discrimination against customers, followed by a bout of acting like a martyr if you were pushed to do your actual job.