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Should pharmacists be forced to violate religious beliefs by selling the morning after pill?

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41% 408 votes Total: 987 votes
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No.
Why not?
Because, (quote): "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

Repeat quote: "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"!
(Repeating United States Constitution, Amendment 1, free exercise clause).

In fact if you actually read The United States Constitution, especially the 1st Amendment with reference to religion, specifically where it says "the free exercise thereof" (instead of excluding "the free exercise thereof" as is the practice of both the misleading and the misled who follow them), you will see a number of things which will now be pointed out.

First of all, if you actually read the 1st Amendment then you will notice that "Free exercise thereof" (of religion) is stated without exception; it is therefore likewise every bit as much of a Constitutional right as any other without exception, and thus it is also obviously every bit as Constitutionally guaranteed and protected without exception as are freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to peaceably assemble, etc, against violation or "abridging" (depriving, reducing in scope, diminishing). To wit: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble". Thus, if you actually read the 1st Amendment, then you should see it is obvious that any law/regulation to force pharmacists to violate religious beliefs by selling "the morning after pill" is in blatant, direct, and obvious violation of 1st Amendment "free exercise thereof (of religion)".

Of course you may also notice that the misleading and the misled insist as if (quote) "separation of church and state" is specifically stated in the 1st Amendment, but the fact is that (quote) "separation of church and state" is not so stated in the 1st Amendment, as is now shown by both this article and the 1st Amendment shared in this article.

Yes, the phrase "separation of church and state" is a phrase used by one of our Founding Fathers, but no, it is not in the 1st Amendment. The fact is (quote) "separation of church and state" was a personal expression of general observation shared by Thomas Jefferson in a private letter he wrote, and which I will now share here insofar as it relates with the 1st Amendment guarantee and protection of "the free exercise thereof (of religion). (Quote): "Believing with you that religion is a


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