SCOTUS strikes another blow to religious liberty

In refusing to hear a challenge to a Washington state rule that pharmacies dispense emergency contraception to women, that group of Satanist oligarchs occupying the unholy body called the Supreme Court has struck yet another blow to religious liberty.

Here’s the backstory:

Ralph’s Thriftway, a grocery store and pharmacy in Olympia, Wash., owned by a religious Christian family, brought the challenge. The family said it believes that life begins at conception and that “preventing the uterine implantation of a fertilized egg is tantamount to abortion,” Alito wrote. (There is disagreement about whether emergency contraception is an abortifacient.)

The pharmacy’s employees inform those who request Plan B or other emergency contraception that the store does not stock the drugs and refers customers to pharmacies that do.

But regulations issued in 2007 by the Washington State Board of Pharmacy require that all pharmacies stock the drugs. The regulations do not require an individual pharmacist to dispense the drugs but say stores must have on hand one pharmacist who will.

A district judge struck down the regulations, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit overruled.

Writing a dissent to the court’s decision to not review the lower court’s ruling, Justice Samuel Alito said the case raised important 1^st Amendment claims but that “this court does not deem the case worthy of our time. If this is a sign of how religious liberty claims will be treated in the years ahead, those who value religious freedom have cause for great concern.” He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas.

And for those doubting this is an assault on religious liberty, the Washington regulation allows pharmacies to refuse to stock the Plan B pill in question if their stated reason for doing so is its low profit margin. But the board denies pharmacies the right to refuse on religious grounds. And there are more than 30 pharmacies within a five-mile radius of the Stormans’ pharmacy that stock and dispense the drug.

Requiring business owners to accommodate patrons by dispensing services or products that violate their religious conscious is totalitarianism and violates their rights of religious liberty.  It’s the same principal involved in denying bakers, photographers, wedding planners, florists, etc., their rights to exercise their religion and cater to the sodomites.

Granting special privileges to certain minority classes deny natural rights to the majority.

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