“No one disputes that there are circumstances in which people have a fundamental right to assert a moral or religious objection to performing duties — such as military service — and thus cannot be pressed by law into performing them. The problem lies in sorting out who can opt out and when. Consider, through that lens, the parallels between California physicians who refused last week to participate in the execution of a convicted killer and the growing numbers of pharmacists around the country who refuse to dispense morning-after pills.” (Washington Post, Monday)
Basic distinctions between state and private sector — coercion and contract — would be helpful.
FEE Timely Classic
“The Person and His Society” by Edmund A. Opitz