Has Religion been Resurrected as a Basis for Discrimination?

Okay - this is totally a loaded question.....and it deserves a big ole conversation, but I'm tired and I've conversed a lot today....so I just wanted to say a word for now - but I want to revisit this subject.

I've recently been corresponding with the Target Corp. because of a policy that they have w/r/to their in-store pharmacies & pharmacists. Basically, they [Target] allow their pharmacists to NOT fill prescriptions for emergency contraception if such a medication does not comport with their religious beliefs. I think this is an impermissible stretch of the freedom of one to practice their religion. To take a libertarian perspective (and we all know I ain't libertarian) - the pharmacists rights can only extend so far, until they infringe on another citizens rights. In this case this (hypothetical) pharmacist's rights are given priority over the woman with prescription in hand. Why? Because it's a religious belief? If so, someone needs to explain to me why someone's intangible 'faith' is given priority over a real substantive right of an individual.

A friend of mine gave me some valuable insight.....he said "Andrew, there's a reason that they're aren't many fundamentalist Christians who are abortion doctors or Jehovah's Witness' that work in ICU's" - their religions don't comport to the requirements of the job. So you've got a choice: find a way to square your beliefs with your job....or find another job. There are tons of pro-choice Catholics out there, ostensibly they separate out their beliefs from their politics or from their jobs (if they're politicians).

I'm not saying that you can't be a Pharmacist if you're pro-life politically and you don't think that the law should allow emergency contraception - but you can't be a selective Pharmacist - Public Health & Women's Rights are far too important to be left in an individuals subjective belief structure. Just fill the damn script and then go home and write your congressperson.