Stanley Fish blogged at the New York Times last night about the "conscience clause" which says roughly that a pharmacist who has a moral objection to certain medications can refuse to sell them even though the medications are legal and consumers want them.
It's interesting as his stuff usually is.
This sequestering of religion in a private space is a cornerstone of enlightenment liberalism which only works as a political system if everyone agrees to comport himself or herself as a citizen and not as a sectarian, at least for the purposes of public transactions.
Read Fish's post and come back here to leave comment.
Photo culled from The New York Times
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