So - do they control what their employees buy with their wages as well? The way I see it, the money they pay into insurance is just another form of compensation for the employee. (It's often lumped into compensation when looking at job offers, after all!) Which means it is, effectively, the employee's money. And they can't exactly tell their employees "you can't spend your money on that goddess figurine because we don't believe in that religion" so why can they tell us what sort of insurance we can or can't have?
It's one thing for religious organizations where religion is the main point of the organization. Churches. Religious Outreach Groups. But the argument here is that ANY organization that has a religious leader (one of the attorneys said "if I quit this job and open a Taco Bell, I'd have to do this, and that's not right!") should not have to do this. And that's bull. Because your employees do not follow your religion, therefore you have NO BUSINESS forcing them to. "I don't believe in birth control, so you can't have access to it through your insurance" is just a form of infringing your beliefs on me. And THAT infringes on MY religious beliefs. I'm not going to force birth control pills down my employer's throat. THAT is the only way this would infringe upon their beliefs.
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Date: 16/2/12 19:36 (UTC)It's one thing for religious organizations where religion is the main point of the organization. Churches. Religious Outreach Groups. But the argument here is that ANY organization that has a religious leader (one of the attorneys said "if I quit this job and open a Taco Bell, I'd have to do this, and that's not right!") should not have to do this. And that's bull. Because your employees do not follow your religion, therefore you have NO BUSINESS forcing them to. "I don't believe in birth control, so you can't have access to it through your insurance" is just a form of infringing your beliefs on me. And THAT infringes on MY religious beliefs. I'm not going to force birth control pills down my employer's throat. THAT is the only way this would infringe upon their beliefs.