California's highest court on Monday said doctors have to perform elective procedures desired by gays and lesbians; they can't get out of the obligation based on their religious beliefs.

By Laura Parker When does the freedom to practice religion become discrimination? The California Supreme Court is being asked to answer that question when it hears a legal dispute between a lesbian mom and two doctors who refused to artificially inseminate her for religious reasons.

A California appeals court heard arguments Tuesday in the case of a woman who sued her doctors after they refused to artificially inseminate her, allegedly because she is gay.