A pharmacist is licensed by the state to fill legal prescriptions. If any pharmacist refuses to do so, their license should be revoked! If they want to be preachers, they need to go back to school and leave the job of pharmacist to someone who will fulfill the requirements as a pharmacist, fill all legal prescriptions.

I agree with Ranselar. No one else gets to do ONLY what they believe is right on their job. If they want to be moral police, let 'em become preachers but stay the hell OUT of our pharmacies!!

I agree that a pharmacist shouldn't be allowed to preach from behind the counter by refusing to dispense the medication that he deems immoral. Being that both Byrd and her partner were older than 18 years of age, and that the medication is technically over the counter for them, someone else could have granted their request, no?

This is another travesty. I think the pharmacist should be fired and the store manager, too, since he lied by saying the pharmacist had the law on his side. Additionally, what the hell is Wal-Mart teaching its management staff? "The customer is always right, unless of course they're morally wrong."
I should think the narrowest interpretation of the Bible would have a problem with people taking any drug, but I'm sure our sparkly-clean pharmacist doesn't refuse every person who comes through the door.
This is part of the organized mission of radicals to work their way into the everyday fabric of America and strangle out their opposition. They are doing it in school systems, too, so they can stamp out gay/straight alliances. We should have known that with the political current moving to the left last election, these freaks would double their resolve to try to control their neighbors in the civic realm and, as in this case, in the mass market. Another reason I am so glad I don't shop at Wal-Hell. [Okay, I don't believe in hell, but as a construct...]

And I bet he still fills out scripts for oxycontin