Minneapolis residents Jess and John Pentz — a couple who’ve been married for 17 years — were traveling through Hayward, Wisconsin over the 4th of July weekend when Jess realized she’d forgotten to bring her birth control pills.
They pulled into the local Hayward Walgreens pharmacy, where Jess picked up a box of condoms from a shelf and handed them to the clerk manning the register.
“Manning” seems to be the right verb here: “John,” the Walgreens clerk, refused to ring them up.
Jess, confused, asked him why, pointing to the shelf where she’d picked up the condoms.
“We can sell that to you,” clerk “John” told Jess with a smirk, “but I won’t because of my faith.”
@Walgreens because we had left Jess birth control at home. As Jess was checking out, cashier John told her he couldn’t sell her the condoms. “Oh I got them from over there.” nn“We can, but I won’t because of my faith.”
There’s no law in America against being an ass, so this Walgreens clerk was entirely within his rights to behave like one. But, because of five Republicans on the…
