If you said "Roll back contraceptive coverage" in the "Friday" thread claim your prize

[Acer]

The Trump administration on Friday rolled back an ObamaCare requirement that employers include birth-control coverage in their health insurance plans.

"Under a highly anticipated rule published Friday, any employer or insurer can stop following the birth control mandate on moral and religious grounds. The rule takes effect immediately."

Though I'm not sure this qualifies as something they hope no one will see, because it's a massive, meaty, dripping bone to the religious right.

[swampy]

Wow! So now it is wrong for business owners to have religious or moral belief involving birth control. I can't wait for the supremes to weigh in on this one (again).

[Lux Interior]

swampy wrote:
Wow! So now it is wrong for business owners to have religious or moral belief involving birth control.

Not at all.

It is; however, immoral, repugnant, disgusting, and unconstitutional for them to force it on their employees.

I'm sure you would have no problem with an atheist employer banning employees from praying, reading the bible or going to church? I mean, if it's a deeply held belief?

[rgG]

swampy wrote:
Wow! So now it is wrong for business owners to have religious or moral belief involving birth control. I can't wait for the supremes to weigh in on this one (again).

It's not wrong for them to have their personal beliefs.
It is wrong for them to impose them on their employees.

[NewtonMP2100]

....so now population boom is coming.....

[Pam]

swampy wrote:
Wow! So now it is wrong for business owners to have religious or moral belief involving birth control. I can't wait for the supremes to weigh in on this one (again).

Your religious beliefs are personal. A business is not a person and this idea that it should be treated as such is ludicrous. Look at Chick Fil A. They do it right. The owners have their religious beliefs but their business operates in the public realm and does not force the owners beliefs on employees or customers. Citizens United and rulings allowing closely held companies to operate as if they were individuals will eventually be overturned.

[Janit]

Just another reminder of the current government position that "life" begins at conception and ends at birth.

[bfd]

Pam wrote:
[quote=swampy]
Wow! So now it is wrong for business owners to have religious or moral belief involving birth control. I can't wait for the supremes to weigh in on this one (again).

Your religious beliefs are personal. A business is not a person and this idea that it should be treated as such is ludicrous. Look at Chick Fil A. They do it right. The owners have their religious beliefs but their business operates in the public realm and does not force the owners beliefs on employees or customers. Citizens United and rulings allowing closely held companies to operate as if they were individuals will eventually be overturned.
Well, partially true. If you want one of their sandwiches on a Sunday, you're out of luck. If you're a worker at the Fil-a, you can't get hours on Sundays. So they do kind of force their beliefs on the rest of us. It really shouldn't bother someone that a business won't bake their cake, or print their announcements, or cater their party. There are other vendors. Now if the "denial of service" comes from a public servant, or a school, or a physician, or something like that, then it really does feel different.

[JoeH]

Then again many stores and restaurants are closed one day a week. So that could be seen as a continuation of that tradition, just picking a day that has significance to the chain's owners. In this day it might seem a bit different where so many national chains have gone to 7 days a week operation.

[pdq]

bfd wrote:
It really shouldn't bother someone that a business won't bake their cake, or print their announcements, or cater their party. There are other vendors.

So, a "whites only" sign on a restaurant shouldn't bother us, if there's another restaurant down the street?