‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans. Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law. (The Guardian)
Individual workers, as if they are not employees of the US government, are as free as they wish to discriminate against unmarried veterans and veterans who happen to be registered Democrats. It is as if the VA is some privately owned and operated division of the Heritage Foundation, or some Mega Evangelical Church outreach center.
This is just one more step beyond decency and democracy; it is one step closer to Fascism and Christian Nationalism. We cannot be silent because what will come next is a county clerk from Kentucky deciding who can and who cannot receive a marriage license? Oh, wait, that already happened.
