Wal-Mart Pharmacist Convicted For Religious Tirade To Customers

WBAY-TV reports that in LaCrosse, Wisconsin yesterday, former Wal-Mart pharmacist Neil Noesen was convicted by a jury on charges of obstruction, but acquitted on disorderly conduct charges. All the charges grow out of a disturbance he caused last July while working briefly at the Wal-Mart in Onalaska, Wisconsin. Noesen insisted on telling customers about his religious objections as a Catholic to the dispensing of birth control prescriptions. When he refused police orders to leave the store, he was taken out in a wheel chair. This is Noesen's fourth conviction on charges relating to his objections to dispensing contraceptive prescriptions and devices.