All those calling for individual religious exemptions for things like this or for pharmacist who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control need to get a clue. You do not have a right to impose your religion on someone else or use your religion as an excuse for violating the law and not do your job. If your religious views prohibit you from doing your job than you picked the wrong career path. As one of the commentators said - "If your religious beliefs would interfere with your ability to perform the duties of a job, then you are free to seek a different job. You are not free to take the job and refuse to do it while whining about religious persecution." If a vegetarian took a job as a waitress at a steak house and refused to serve meat or any meat product she would be fired and no one would even think for one second that she had the right to refuse to do her job because of her beliefs. The same would be true for a pacifist who enlisted in the military and the said he or she would have no part in killing people or attacking anything whether it be as a soldier, mechanic, or analyst. The same is true with religion you are entitled to your religious beliefs just as your entitled to be a vegetarian or pacifist but you cannot use those beliefs to discriminate or refuse to do your job.

People have been known to get biology degrees while being creationalist and some (very few) biologists end up becoming creationalist so it's not really unexpected that creationalists would slip through the cracks in a medical degree that is more focused on how humans are right now than on how we (and all the other animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, viruses, etc) came to be.

"Unequal taxation has also been a big factor and still is today even in 'secular' countries with religions getting their undeserved tax exemptions."

I personally think that other religious institutions should follow the example of the Church of Satan - admit that they're running a business and pay their damn taxes! It's interesting to see how Levey and co. have more integrity than those who are supposed defenders of the "truth..."

"Jeez, what the hell is this women doing as a fertility specialist? "She is not married" sounds like a poor excuse for someone whit her work, I would bet she just doesn't wants to admit that her decision was based on the sexuality orientation of her patient."

And even if it's true, who is she to decide unmarried couples can't have children? It's just a piece of paper with way too much value ascribed to it - I personally would like to see that institution of "marraige" die within my lifetime.

A lot of religious conversions have been due to economic motivations with a favoured religion being given its holy days as designated days of rest (instead of having its members forced to choose between work or church) along with often letting those in that religion get out of onerous duties. Unequal taxation has also been a big factor and still is today even in 'secular' countries with religions getting their undeserved tax exemptions.

Jeez, what the hell is this women doing as a fertility specialist? "She is not married" sounds like a poor excuse for someone whit her work, I would bet she just doesn't wants to admit that her decision was based on the sexuality orientation of her patient.

A press release from the Capitol Resource Institute, a California family policy advocacy group, said, "The California Supreme Court's decision proves that these activist judges are willing to deny our First Amendment religious freedom in order to create rights for homosexuals."

If your religious beliefs would interfere with your ability to perform the duties of a job, then you are free to seek a different job. You are not free to take the job and refuse to do it while whining about religious persecution.

I agree completely and cannot, for the life of me, figure out why some people have such a hard time with it. The other side of the coin is that employers can also fire employees who refuse to perform their duties. Of course, many employers probably want to avoid being accused of religious persecution, so they allow employees to impose their wills on the company as well as the clients.

If artificial insemination was not part of a particular clinic's contract, and the doctors refused that procedure for everyone, then I would have agreed with the doctors' decision. I do not believe that starting a family is a right in a sufficiently strong sense that medical support for conception is automatic.