Sacramento, Calif., Aug 19, 2008 / 15:16 pm
In a unanimous ruling that could have wide-ranging effects on the free exercise of conscience and the progress of homosexual activism, the California Supreme Court on Monday ruled against two doctors who declined to artificially inseminate a lesbian because they strongly believe children should be raised by a mother and a father.
The two doctors, who are Christians, reportedly did not want to participate in an act that would deliberately exclude a father when Guadalupe Benitez and her partner, Joanne Clark, sought to receive artificial insemination.
Although the doctors paid for a referral to other fertility specialists without any objections to performing the procedure, Benitez sued both under California’s civil rights laws.
The Christian Medical Association’s CEO Dr. David Stevens attacked the decision, saying in a press release: