If your Catholic Employer can deny you contraception insurance... [View all]
Last edited Thu Feb 9, 2012, 09:59 PM - Edit history (1)
...then your Jehovah's Witness employer can demand that your health insurance exclude blood transfusions.
The employer who belongs to the Church of Scientology can strip your insurance of mental health coverage.
Your Jewish employer can deny porcine (pig) heart valve replacements.
Your Muslim employer can say "no" to treatment for alcohol abuse on the grounds that alcoholism is a sin and not a health problem.
And your Christian Scientists employer can use this as an excuse to deny you any health care coverage at all.
Further...
....since health insurance is something that we all pay for ourselves (i.e. it is deducted from our wages), if your Catholic Employer can tell that you can not spend your money to buy health insurance that covers birth control, he can also demand that you not spend any portion of your salary for condoms.
Your Jewish employer can insist that the wages he pays not go towards the purchase of bacon.
Ditto for your Muslim employer, and you can't buy any beer, either!
Your Christian Scientist employer can put a tag on you with an alarm that goes off if you get within 100 feet of a CVS Pharmacy.
And since it would be a violation of religious conscience to give money to someone who is going to tithe it to the wrong Church, Synagogue or Mosque, your employer can demand that you adopt his religion. If you refuse, he can fire you immediately, and he will not have to pay unemployment, since that would be giving money to a cause that is not in keeping with his faith.
If you can see what is wrong with the last ten scenarios, then you should be able to see what is wrong with the first.
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