I'm too tired/lazy to find the studies again, but i have done research on Americas health care versus the world community as well as issues like this regarding contraception and "religious protection". Plenty of studies show that folks who identify as agnostic or atheist actually know more about scripture than those who identify as memebers of a specific religion.

Religion is built on not asking questions and accepting faith on its face which goes against teh grains and basic concepts of knwoledge and education. I guess thats your answer as to why religion breeds ignorance in a nutshell.

Disgusting. Typical right-wing garbage.

"While the proponents of the bill cite less-offensive cases, such as Jewish butchers refusing to handle non-kosher meat or Christian pastors prohibited from donating to local homeless populations due to food safety rules, others point to subtler — and more dangerous — possible uses. These include pharmacists refusing to fill HIV prescriptions, or EMTs denying a gay person the right to live, said an ACLU of Michigan attorney to MLive."

Guys, the bill in question does not specifically allow EMT's to refuse treatment to homosexuals. The idea that this law will allow that is just something an ACLU attorney said. I rather doubt that that's the idea behind this bill, anyways.

Wow, that's such a terrible law. Gay people should protest about this.

Then you need to manage your people a little better. The upright Christians have to address the rotters like Scott Lively (who's going to get crimes-against-humanity charges for his authoring Uganda's "kill the gays" law) or you all look bad.

While I think private business should have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason, sadly liberals think they know what's best for you and it's illegal to do so, but I don't think healthcare professionals should have this right under any circumstance.

How about reading the actual bill? This doesn't have anything to do with what the actual bill says, but is instead a hypothetical "what if?" scenario. Try reading EMTALA, a federal law, as well, which requires hospital workers to give treatment to anyone with emergency medical conditions.

Again, as I have said before, just because people claim to be Christian or claim that their actions are Christian does not make that true. There is no managing I can do for people that claim to be believers yet don't act like it. All I can say is that no one with a true heart for Christ would want people to die for their sins, because a true Christian would understand Christ died for our sins and we were no better than anyone else before we were saved.

People will always blame the real faith in Christ for atrocoties committed by crazy people that are clearly mislead or are intentionally misleading others. It can't be helped entirely, but I can at least try to clear up misconceptions.

Will gay EMTs be allowed to refuse to help religious people, then? Only makes sense.

The Republican party just seems to get weirder and weirder. This is sick, and I hope alot of Americans stand up against these twisted politicians.