neilxod - it's been illegal for a doctor to refuse to treat a person because of their race for many years. why should this be different for a gay person?

quite frankly, when i have a big problem or my life is in the balance, i don't really care whether the doctor doesn't like something about me. i just wanna get help from a knowledgeable source.

then there's the fact that when there's only one doctor within an hour drive of where a person lives, he/she could die or have extreme complications if someone doesn't take a look and give them some antibiotics. you think it's personal freedom for the doctor to refuse to do this?

btw, it's not legal for a cab driver to refuse to pick up a black person. it's not legal for you to shoot someone because they are asian. i remember the 60's. ALL people on white school boards made the decision not to allow education for black people, who were forced to poor black-only schools. black people weren't allowed to drink from water fountains in the south marked "white". our country decided that kind of personal choice on behalf of the bigoted white administrators was illegal. and i think it should be.

when white doctors were forced to start working on black patients, the black patients didn't complain that for the first time they were receiving medical care that included equipment and medicine that wasn't substandard.

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