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Work Post: Birth Control
Mar. 24th, 2014 09:36 pmI don't have health insurance through work but I don't believe companies should be able to impose their religious beliefs on their employees.
If the Supreme Court sides with Hobby Lobby that they can deny their employees portions of health insurance that the federal government deems necessary, then this sets a dangerous precedent. What's stopping businesses from saying other elements of health care are also against their religious beliefs, like in vitro fertilization, life-saving measures like organ transplants or experimental procedures?
I do agree that things are tricky. People who disagree with secular schools are free to put their children in religious schools so it makes sense that people would want to work for those with their same beliefs but at the same time...
If all of your employees believe in the same things you do, including not using birth control, wouldn't they simply not exercise their right to have it under the law? Why should it be such a big deal for you to offer something when no one is going to use it anyway?
Unless, of course, you want to be an asshole and impose your religious beliefs on those you KNOW don't believe in the same way you do.
It's like that old comic about religion in schools that says that there'll be prayer in schools as long as schools continue to have tests because individuals are free to express their beliefs how they want. I know I prayed silently a lot in school.
I haven't seen a single Democrat on C-SPAN. Even my mom commented on that.
If the Supreme Court sides with Hobby Lobby that they can deny their employees portions of health insurance that the federal government deems necessary, then this sets a dangerous precedent. What's stopping businesses from saying other elements of health care are also against their religious beliefs, like in vitro fertilization, life-saving measures like organ transplants or experimental procedures?
I do agree that things are tricky. People who disagree with secular schools are free to put their children in religious schools so it makes sense that people would want to work for those with their same beliefs but at the same time...
If all of your employees believe in the same things you do, including not using birth control, wouldn't they simply not exercise their right to have it under the law? Why should it be such a big deal for you to offer something when no one is going to use it anyway?
Unless, of course, you want to be an asshole and impose your religious beliefs on those you KNOW don't believe in the same way you do.
It's like that old comic about religion in schools that says that there'll be prayer in schools as long as schools continue to have tests because individuals are free to express their beliefs how they want. I know I prayed silently a lot in school.
I haven't seen a single Democrat on C-SPAN. Even my mom commented on that.
