{"id":16328,"date":"2014-02-13T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:53:36","slug":"walgreens-lawsuit-points-out-the-problem-with-consumer-protests-where-to-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/2014\/02\/walgreens-lawsuit-points-out-the-problem-with-consumer-protests-where-to-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens Lawsuit Points Out the Problem with Consumer Protests: Where to Shop!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Tell me: \u00a0Where am I supposed to buy aspirin and sundries now?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to be politically correct and support consumer sentiment; but my drug store options are shrinking!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>It\u2019s no longer politically correct to support CVS or Rite-Aid or Walgreens.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So where\u2019s a girl supposed to get shampoo and bandaids and birthday cards and the occasional candy bar?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

CVS PHARMACY<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

RITE AID<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Rite Aid\u2014at least, its stores in Lancaster, California\u2014were the subject of protests in 2009 because of their refusal to permit employees to unionize. In 2010 and again in 2011, the protest spread nationwide as Rite-Aid workers from around the country gathered at 40 different stores to protest management efforts to prevent unionization.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

WALGREEN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

And now on Tuesday, February 11, the Thomas More Society\u2013along with Brentwood, TN attorney Larry Crain\u2013filed suit against\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Walgreens Pharmacy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>, on behalf of a pharmacist who was fired in a freedom of religion case that\u2019s sure to get a lot of attention. Dr. Phillip Hall, a Baptist who had worked at the store for six years, has received consistently favorable reviews for his performance. But now, for exercising his constitutionally and statutorily protected right to freedom of religion, Dr. Hall is job-hunting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

According to the <\/span>Thomas More Society<\/a>:<\/span><\/h3>\n

From the time of his hiring in March 2007, Dr. Hall followed Walgreens\u2019 well-known protocol allowing him to ask another pharmacist to dispense prescription drugs such as Plan B. After the implementation of new FDA protocols in August of 2013, requiring that Plan B be sold over-the-counter, Dr. Hall reiterated to his superiors his religious objections to selling the drug and followed up with a call to the employee relations department at Walgreens\u2019 corporate headquarters to express his concerns.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

One month later, Dr. Hall was questioned by his superiors about how he would treat a request for the drug. As he had been informed of no change in store policy due to the change in FDA regulations, he verbally went through the standard protocol, which he had followed for the past six years. But then he was fired on the spot.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is illegal for Walgreens to attempt to force employees like Dr. Hall to dispense certain drugs in violation of their religious and moral beliefs,\u201d stated Jocelyn Floyd, attorney with the Thomas More Society, \u201cespecially after six years of settled store practices showed that Walgreens could reasonably accommodate Dr. Hall\u2019s religious beliefs with no difficulties.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But there is one thing on which the three chains (CVS, Walgreen\u2019s and Rite-Aid) can agree: The pharmacy chains all refused to sell Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s August issue, which featured Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tell me: \u00a0Where am I supposed to buy aspirin and sundries now? I\u2019m trying to be politically correct and support consumer sentiment; but my drug store options are shrinking!\u00a0It\u2019s no longer politically correct to support CVS or Rite-Aid or Walgreens. 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Recently I\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>wrote<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>CVS Pharmacy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u2018s new plan to discontinue sales of all tobacco products. I was pleased by that positive sign; however, my readers over on Facebook were quick to remind me that the chain has a large \u201cfamily-planning\u201d (aka contraceptive) section which included\u2014get this!\u2013sex toys.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n