Discrimination or not?

[Dentafrice]

A judge is a highly trained professional. They'd of had good reasoning for their decisions.

In a lot of jobs I can think of you'd be sacked if you let your morals get in the way...

Although they didnt say it in so many words; we need to think about the reasoning as to why they wouldnt do it. The lesbians natural instinct would of lead them to believe that they wouldnt do it because they are lesbians....

That may be the reason ^ Even if they didnt say it.

But in a private practice owned by those doctors, it doesn't matter.. they aren't going to be sacked.

A judge may be a highly trained professional, but the jury also affects the decision made by the judge It looks bad on the judge if the entire jury says guilty.. and he says innocent.. so he follows what they say as a main reason.

[Earthquake]

Conversely you could argue that forcing the doctors to do something they don't want to is a violation of their human rights and slavery to a degree. It would be understandable if it was doctors in the NHS...but it's not, it's America. Which explains why this happened anyway.

pretty much clears up this thread.

[BlueTango]

A judge may be a highly trained professional, but the jury also affects the decision made by the judge It looks bad on the judge if the entire jury says guilty.. and he says innocent.. so he follows what they say as a main reason.

Over here a judge and a jury wouldnt get chance to contradict eachother as only one of them would make a decision.

[Dentafrice]

Well I'm guessing this was a civil not criminal case, so there was no jury present.. just realized that.

So the judge was both the trier of fact and the trier of law. So the judge himself decided whether or not they were guilty/not guilty.. as well as decided the punishment.

So the judge could have been impartial, we don't know.

[N-Dubz]

Doctor's shouldn't have to perform on somebody if they dont believe in what there doing and plus was there just like one doctor in the whole place?
People sue for no reason nowdayz.

[PaintYourTarget]

But the thing is, they were referred to different Doctors willing to perform the treatment. They're not actually losing anything, just the inconvinience of having to do one more consultation. I might have been sympathetic to them if they hadn't been referred, but they're just being selfish.