This letter that the ACLU wrote to a Senator makes very good points. When saying that "Unless amended, the bill would threaten important rights of religious minorities, racial minorities, women, gay men and lesbians, and persons seeking reproductive health care and mental health services" there really is nothing to argue against that. Cited in this article are issues such as a police officer requesting to refuse to protect an abortion clinic and an employee assistance counselor's request to refuse to counsel unmarried or gay or lesbian employees on relationship issues; these are the sort of things that should not be allowed and that would be under this provision. The ACLU makes the argument that Congress has the capability of changing previous religious freedom in the workplace without harming critical personal and civil rights, and that this is what should happen. When we put religion above the basic human rights that the United States gaurantees to all we have a problem.
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