Pharmacists, Property, Common Carriers, and Freedom

Here, at the "Left2Right" blog, is a very long, detailed, and careful post by Professor Elizabeth Anderson that, among other things, explores the implications for the "pharmacists with religious objections to dispensing certain drugs" debate of this claims:  "In a free society, it is impossible for private individuals to avoid supporting the freedom of others to do things of which they disapprove."

Here is the conclusion:

There are some public accommodations of such vital interest to each person that each has a compelling liberty interest in unfettered access to it, without being subject to the arbitrary decisions of those who operate them.  The right to operate a public accommodation is not the right to inflict one's religious beliefs on others.  The pharmacist's license is a license to practice pharmacy for others, not a license to practice one's religion on others.  The state, in the name of freedom, properly enforces a common carrier rule in such cases.

I link; you decide.  Check it out.

Rick