(February 10, 2016 at 12:38 pm)Divinity Wrote: A company shouldn't be allowed to deny contraception coverage to employees. It's pretty fucking simple really. Why the fuck should a company get to tell their employees what they can and can't do? Hobby Lobby is stupid, and if I ever shopped at the stupid fucking place before, I certainly as hell wouldn't now.
Religious Liberty is just a license to discriminate, and force your beliefs on others. At least the way conservatards describe it.
I'm not so sure that contraception needs to be part of the package provided by employers. Most don't (as far as I know at least) provide dental or optical coverage in their insurance, since while those things are nice, they are generally not strictly necessary. Surely, a full-time worker can afford to purchase condoms, and birth control beyond that is optional.
There's a difference between extending to someone the liberty to make choices, and having to pay for stuff.
That being said, as an employer of female staff, I'm not a big fan of training people and then paying for maternity leave while subs flounder around the office. If a few condoms or a couple extra dollars a month for other options might allow me to maintain stability in the workforce, I'm all for it. This is also why I pay for gym memberships-- not because I'm a super-nice guy, but because I think healthy people will be better employees. Win, win, methinks-- but if I HAD to pay for all that stuff, legally, I'd be pretty unhappy about it.
