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Simply put:
A pharmacist can refuse to issue ANY medication, for ANY reason. This is simply to protect his/her license and/or liability against lawsuits. For example, if a person comes in with a perfectly valid script for Oxycontin, but the druggist knows that the person has come in with three other scripts in the same week, s/he can refuse to fill it.
I know this because I work for an electronic prescription company, and some pharmacists have refused to fill our scripts because they didn't trust that they were valid. There wasn't a DAMNED thing we could do about it.
Admittedly, it is stretching the argument a bit to include moral reasons. But I certainly believe in their right to refuse. Ultimately, they are jeopardizing their business or the business of their employer. If they are self-owned...then tough titties! If they are owned by some mega-chain, I suspect that reporting this to the chain management might cause some grief for the pharmacist in question.
Either way, go down the street a bit and I'm SURE there is a pharmacist willing to fill the script.
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