{"id":3249,"date":"2005-04-05T19:42:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/05\/living-in-a-theocracy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T19:07:01","slug":"living-in-a-theocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/05\/living-in-a-theocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in a Theocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8557,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/opinion\\\/218755_erbe05.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050408111756\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/opinion\\\/218755_erbe05.html?source=rss&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 12:15:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 16:07:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 02:25:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 02:25:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>How in the world can people justify going to war to free people from religious oppression, and at the same time, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/opinion\/218755_erbe05.html?source=rss\" title=\"Moral judgments on birth control endangering women's lives\">condone and encourage religious oppression here at home<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Here&#8217;s an outrage for you. There&#8217;s a growing movement among pharmacists and even doctors to refuse to provide legal and necessary health services.<\/p>\n<p>  Let&#8217;s start with pharmacists. In at least 10 states, they have refused to fill prescriptions for birth control, citing moral and religious beliefs. In so doing, they have incited a nationwide outcry by women (and their men) who rely on such basic medical services.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;Some pharmacists &#8220;just say no&#8221; to filling the prescriptions. Others don&#8217;t offer these women alternative locations where they can get them filled. A few zealous pharmacists have actually gone off the deep end and refused to return the prescriptions to the women for whom they were written. That&#8217;s obstruction &#8212; someone who is licensed by the state to provide a medical service (to wit, the pharmacist) has instead barred a customer from obtaining that service.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing more and more stories about this lately, and find it absolutely outrageous. How much longer before the extreme right-wing pushes too far?<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, not much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Flesh 'n Blood%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Flesh 'n Blood' on the iTMS\">Flesh &#8216;n Blood<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DOingo Boingo%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Oingo Boingo on the iTMS\">Oingo Boingo<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Best o' Boingo%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Best o' Boingo on the iTMS\">Best o&#8217; Boingo<\/a><\/em> (1989, 4:09).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How in the world can people justify going to war to free people from religious oppression, and at the same time, condone and encourage religious oppression here at home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}