Re: Bigotry is well and alive even among doctors.
Why, aren't their convictions or faith just as valid?
They are, but the state has said, it doesn't matter, you must provide emergency care if you're a doctor, pure and simple, really.
Normally yes, but the issue is that once such bigotry becomes acceptable at some level it becomes acceptable at all levels.
That's a false dichotomy, and as such invalid on its face.
By the way how do you feel about being humiliated? Does it just roll of your back, do you feel angry, even a desire to even the score?
Again, I point to the delusion that one must feel, thinking that everyone must be accepting of homosexuality. The truth is that, not everyone agrees with your lifestyle choice, and some, including me think it's primarily a choice brought about by one's environment and mental capacity to distinguish and understand how our chemistry is affected by various inputs.
Because doctors don't have personal profiles that say, "Not a bigoted asshole -- gays and their children accepted here." That's why.
Rhetoric aside, do you not interview a doctor before choosing them? For that matter, do you not interview any one person providing a service? I do all the time.
So, what, they should just wander around knocking on doors until they find one, meanwhile their child isn't getting their regular check-ups, or perhaps their treatment for an illness? Or perhaps resort to paying 5 times as much money by going to the ER, if they can't afford any further delay?
Again, this was not an emergency situation so your analogy fails.
Why? Why should doctors be permitted to subject people to that? Why should gay people have to look for a doctor who's "accepting" in the first place?
Because the simple truth is that not everyone thinks homosexuals are as wholesome as some would lead you to believe.
Everyone deals with people they don't like while on the job, and usually in jobs that are far less critical than health care. Yet doctors, who decide if people live or die, should be the exception?
Exactly, if it were me, I certainly wouldn't allow this to go unchecked, and I'm sure Michigan will address it, however, this was not a live and die situation. A Pediatrician is providing a service, and emergency care is usually performed at hospitals where life saving equipment is more readily available.
Why the hell should that be allowed?
because people, even service providers have rights as well. Homosexuals don't have a right, nor anyone else to not be offended. They don't have a right to force someone to accept them and their lifestyle choices.
Tim-