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Michigan House passed bill allowing EMTs to refuse treatment to gay individuals

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Michigan House Passes Bill Allowing Health Care Discrimination Against LGBT On Grounds Of 'Religious Freedom'

 

A new bill called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) has passed through the Michigan House of Representatives, prohibiting the government from intervening if health care workers, such as EMTs and pharmacists, and other businesspeople refuse service on the grounds of protecting personal religious beliefs.

 

Though the bill has yet to make its way to the state Senate, its 59-50 passage in the House has already caused controversy, particularly among opponents who claim the bill is merely a veiled attempt at legalizing discrimination. Supporters, meanwhile, point to a waning set of religious freedoms in public life as the cause for the bill. People of specific religious backgrounds shouldn’t have to practice their beliefs solely in private, some have asserted.

 

“I support individual liberty and I support religious freedom,†said House Speaker Jase Bolger ® in a Dec. 4 press statement. “I have been horrified as some have claimed that a person’s faith should only be practiced while hiding in their home or in their church.â€

 

Michigan’s RFRA is modeled after a federal law, which the Supreme Court has ruled does not apply to states. Under both forms of the law, an individual’s claim would have to pass a two-part balancing test in order to meet the legal standards. First, the individual would have to prove the request violated his or her sincerely held religious beliefs, and the government would then have to prove the law achieved its policy goal through the least restrictive means possible.

 

 

 

Link to full article, http://www.medicaldaily.com/michigan-house-passes-bill-allowing-health-care-discrimination-against-lgbt-grounds-313518

 

 

Understand it has yet to happen. But the fact that it got this far is unbelievable itself. How nobody thinks this is discrimination is fucking ridiculous.

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EMTs

So if a person has an emergency, can the EMT just be like... 'Uh no, you're gay, I'm not going to help save your life?"

Besides, how would they even know if someone is gay? Is it based on the stereotypes that society has about gay people?

that's what i was thinking too.. hmm

 

and i thought church and state were supposed to be a separate thing too

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I'll never understand how a person's sexuality offends so many people

Two words: Church Propaganda

 

Sorry to those who go to church.

 

Wow just when I thought my faith in humanity couldn't sink any lower.

And why would you ask someone what their sexual orientation? That's personal.

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Similar to how pharmacists can refuse to sell the morning after pill and/or refuse to fill a prescription for birth control, though I don't know if that's a state-by-state thing or if that's the federal law they're referring to this being modeled after.

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are you FUCKING kidding me?

EMT??

this refers to emergency medics, right? so some guy can be dying on a table and the whole team can say "oh i don't treat gay people" and legally watch him die??

 

are you fucking kidding me?

what asshole hypocrites. if there is a heaven, any dickhead who does this is going straight to hell.

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This is ridiculous. You going to refuse a person's right to seek basic medical care on the basis of his/her sexual orientation? And please stop using religions as an excuse to hide your bigotry and unfounded fear?  

 

Just admit that they fear contracting HIV or AIDS or other STDs from human contact. Even if some countries no longer practice direct mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. As medical professions, if they agreed to this bill, doesn't THAT tell me the people in the streets that they themselves don't believe in the safety of their own medical SOP? If the medical practitioners don't trust their own system, how the hell do they expect me to have confidence and faith in the same system as well?

 

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Tears.


 


 


Extremely ecstatic that Christianity is on it's way to dying out.


A bunch of fractured foolishness.


 


They can pick out every 'anti-gay' passage (which isn't even credible to today's time) use it but can't follow a simple rule as to 'loving thy neighbor'.


I mean, just a complete foolish organization.


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