In a move that’s obviously an assault on an American’s right to hate homosexuals, the Obama administration in 30 days will start forcing health care workers to treat patients even if said treatment violates their religious beliefs. Previously, the Bush-era federal regulation cut off federal funding to any facility that did not permit care workers to object to treatments on religious grounds, allowing, say a doctor to refuse to give an unmarried woman birth control. Or, you know, touch a homosexual, so long as the doctor or nurse or aide could point to a Bible passage that said it would be a sin, or whatever. But now the Health and Human Services Department has very narrowly revised the exception, allowing medical professionals the ability to object to performing abortions, and little else.

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