A "faith-based" pharmacy, one of many in the nation, has opened recently in Chantilly, Va. It refuses to stock any kind of birth control, cigarettes or pornography. Do you agree with this idea?

It must be quite the refreshing place to shop. Hats off and best wishes to this company.

Comrade Obama hasn't been elected yet, so we still have private property rights. The owners of this store have every right to run it as they see fit. Until Obama puts everyone to the right of Chomsky in Gulags that is.

It is a step in the right direction but I'm not sure about the birth control thing. Personally I would prefer one that didn't stock drugs at all. The medical industry is about 15% needed and 85% overblown. I am 74 and haven't succombed to ,or even entered the doors of the AMA for over 20 years (since I could no longer afford it). My wife and I do visit a GOOD chiropractic clinic (have been to the same doc for 26 years) for everything and pray that I can keep on keeping on, at least till I finish building my latest house (alone, totally). A small step in the right direction and now if we could keep those people who are captivated by the runaway medical industry from running to the E.R. for every hangnail we could get back to reality. Reality in this case being that our bodies were designed, with proper care, to heal themselves. Pain is part of that process. Again the media is at fault for much of it. To start we should outlaw all advertising of drugs and medical facilities. Then each person should be given, annually, (yes, by the government) a savings amount for medical use and if they could stay home when they get a hangnail the money they do not spend would eventually be theirs. Meanwhile, catastrophic coverage, only, should be available to all. Sounds to cut and dried for this day and age but the exponentially exploding medical industry needs to be put in it's proper place.

I find birth control paraphernalia prominently displayed in stores slightly offensive and uncomfortable, especially around children. Setting aside the religious aspects, things like that should be private and not public. I applaud the pharmacy, and wish it great success.

I just voted OTHER, but it doesn't show up in the tally, which indicates 0 votes for Other. What's that about? Anyway, I voted Other because I don't like or dislike the idea. To be successful, they have to attract and serve customers who appreciate what they offer. It just sounds like it's a sensible decision for them.

Free enterprise in action. Owners of legitimate businesses are free to sell what they please.

Strongly agree. Cigarettes kill people, so they have no business being sold in a pharmacy under any circumstances. Porno also has no relevance to medicines. I fail to see why it's "controversial." If an auto-parts store failed to stock whiffle ball bats, would there by a surge in outrage over that decision? And as far as condoms, birth control, etc are concerned, the truth is, most of these products are not being used for "family planning," but instead for recreational sex. Pharmacies are not recreation centers. They should be focused on serious medicine. I wonder if the pro-aborts will start complaining next about the lack of escort services and massage parlor "services" at pharmacies...

Exile is correct. This needn't be a faith based idea and frankly I boycotte our major pharmacy chains for selling cigarettes. I prefer the less expensive mail in commercial pharmacies as they only deal with my prescriptions. I also dislike the idea of quick markets selling gasoline and beer and cigarettes. Nothing like getting tanked up twice! I think that VA has the right idea and the concept of ABC stores to sell alcohol and tobacco products not a bad idea.

it's a private business. how can someone disagree with this??? I guess smokers who like porn?

I love that this pharmacy exists! God creates life and women do not have the right to abort that life. By providing birth control, young girls get the impression that sex is OK as long as they have protection. Sex is meant for marriage. Cigarettes kill, period! Porno leads to infidelity of both sexes. People that say pro-choice is OK, porno is OK, smoking is OK and sex before marriage is OK will not have to answer to me, but they will have to answer to GOD on Judgement day.

To Katrina, You talk about the right to choose. Well what about the baby's right to choose to live, who desides that the baby or the mother? As far as this store is concerned, it is great. This is free interprise at it's best, if anyone does not agree fine, no one is forcing anyone to go into this store and buy anything. If you don't agree with the polices of this store, make your purchases at another store.

This is what the Obamunist said in Philly so the pharmacy might want to enjoy their day in the sun now in case he gets elected. "...just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right..." Barack Obama, 2008 (Philadelphia primary debate)

For the majority of women, the right to choose is exercised before conception.

This is not the direction the country needs to go in. Imagine, that you are in a car accident and are taken to a hospital and the doctor who is talented but a Muslim American or Buddist who is against war, decided not to treat his white patient because of Bush's policy towards Middle East and the Muslims in general. There would be an up roar in this country if that would happen. So by denying services to people who do not belive in a particular faith is illegal and unconstitutional We need to keep the essence of the consititution alive by keeping Church and State seperate otherwise we would be no different from countries like Iran where religion dictates domestic and international policies

The owners of the pharmecy have freedom of religion and should be allowed to based their product line on that religion. Only the people who don't like religion and who thing people who think differently (the liberals) would oppose this action.