Coakley: Religious Catholics Shouldn't Work in the ER

Martha Coakley on WBSM Radio:

Ken Pittman: Right, if you are a Catholic, and believe what the Pope teaches that any form of birth control is a sin. ah you don't want to do that.

Martha Coakley: No we have a seperation of church and state Ken, lets be clear.

Ken Pittman: In the emergency room you still have your religious freedom.

Martha Coakley: (...stammering) The law says that people are allowed to have that. You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn't work in the emergency room.

By the way, note the use of phrase. People are "allowed" to have religious freedom. Which I guess also means that the government has a right to disallow that as well. I don't think that is what the founding fathers intended with the First Amendment. As Thomas Jefferson said, "the constitutional freedom of religion [is] the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights." and "the rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and.. if any act shall be... passed to repeal or to narrow its operation, such an act will be an infringement of a natural right."