California State Supreme Court may give gays a medical victory

Justices appear to be leaning toward forbidding doctors from denying treatment based on their religious views.
By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 29, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO -- Two weeks after deciding same-sex couples are entitled to marry, the California Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule that physicians have no constitutional right to refuse medical treatment to gays on grounds it would violate their religious beliefs.

The justices' inclination emerged as the state high court heard arguments in a case that pits the religious freedom of physicians against the right of gays to be free from discrimination. the rest