In Which We Find the Christian Right Trolling for an Activist Judge
Or, as named in this article, the “new frontrunner in the race for dumbest Christian Right lawsuit”. In this case, we have a nurse (how she got past the schoolwork, we’ll never know) who applied for a job at a Title X clinic in Tampa (Title X meaning that they explicitly in the business of all things family planning). She went into this interview telling her would-be employer that she could not dispense birth control pills, because she “believes” they cause abortions:
Hellwege said she couldn’t prescribe birth control since, in her unscientific mind, it caused abortions. Lindsey, knowing that all of the job openings involved prescribing birth control, told her there were no other positions available and that there was no reason to proceed with the interview process.
I repeat: She’s suing him because he’s not hiring her for a job she refuses to do.
It makes as much sense as a vegetarian suing Taco Bell for not hiring him even though he told the manager he couldn’t be near meat.
Right? So it is not enough that this so-called nurse has passed enough courses to actually be able to practice as a nurse, but she has applied for a job that she doesn’t want to do. And once she was told she wasn’t suitable, she decided to sue the people whose job she had ambitions to not do.
Apparently is is not enough that she applied for a job that she had no intention of ever performing, but is doing the work of the people who can’t wrap their minds around science. She is trying to get the courts to validate her unscientific belief. Even though most birth control does not count as abortifacients. An activist judge who won’t pay attention to either the science or the fact that an employer is specifically in the business if hiring people who *will* do the work specified could open the doors to a brand new right-wing grift. Apply for jobs you have no intention of doing and collect when you don’t get them.
