@DolphinLundgrin @Zagorath I mean I don't agree. And a lot of the hospitals and schools etc were because the faith communities were the only ones prepared to provide such facilities for anyone who was not wealthy.
But on the other side - they should provide them for the people, not have any further input into the operation.
Also, faith - not the systematic structural organisation that is religion - can be a good thing for people.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
A first step would be to remove all public funding for hospitals that are refusing to provide medical care.
And while we’re at it, GPs. In the city it might not be a problem if your GP refuses to prescribe contraceptives, but if you’re out in the country with no GP within a 6 hour round trip, that sort of thing can be pretty significant. If you’re receiving Medicare subsidies, you need to provide all relevant healthcare, not refuse on the basis of your own personal non-medical beliefs.