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Coexist

(24,542 posts)
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:30 PM Jun 2014

"Hobby Lobby does not object to covering male employees’ costs for vasectomies."

That is a quote.

http://www.wisconsingazette.com/trending-news/supreme-court-rules-monday-on-hobby-lobby-suit-claiming-a-religious-right-to-deny-contraceptive-coverage-for-women-workers.html

In the Hobby Lobby case, even if the court finds the company has a right to enact workplace policies based on the owners’ religious beliefs, it still has to weigh whether the government’s decision to have employee health plans pay for birth control takes precedence over companies’ religious objections.

Business pundits say that although Hobby Lobby might win the case, it could tarnish the company’s brand as anti-woman and politically divisive. Hobby Lobby does not object to covering male employees’ costs for vasectomies.
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Mass

(27,315 posts)
2. They do not object to contraception. They object to those types of contraception that they consider
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:37 PM
Jun 2014

as abortion.

Of course, this is BS. We all know that Plan B and IUD are not abortion, but this is their argument.

Frankly, it would be nice if people could actually listen to the argument and answer to it, and not to a different argument. This may be more useful.

As for Hobby Lobby, this is one of the few stores I have felt uncomfortable trying to buy something and I left. I do like to be aggressed by heavy propaganda when I shop for beads. So, I left and never came back.

This ruling is also a strong argument to get rid of employer funded healthcare and for some type of personal cradle to death system that could be financed partly by taxes.

Coexist

(24,542 posts)
6. I read on another thread that this could open the door
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:40 PM
Jun 2014

to a discrimination lawsuit that would allow medicaid for all women - but who knows.

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
11. I don't understand how such an unscientific argument can win the day.
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 04:20 PM
Jun 2014

But I guess Scalia is no believer in science, either.

No more Catholics on the Supreme Court, ever.

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
3. Their 401K plan also invests in companies
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:37 PM
Jun 2014

that sell birth control pills...

This is nothing but the religious right pushing their version of Sharia Law.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
4. They believe that when a sperm reaches an egg, that is a human life.
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:38 PM
Jun 2014

So presumably they have no issue with vasectomies because this procedure prevents a sperm ever reaching an egg.

I don't agree with them but I assume this is their line of reasoning.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
13. And they believe that after the sperm/egg combo leaves the delivery room,
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:05 PM
Jun 2014

it becomes a welfare moocher.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
5. Interesting.
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:39 PM
Jun 2014

So apparently they aren't anti-contraceptive, they're just anti-women. I wonder if a sex discrimination suit can be filed?

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