The average full time non salary worker at hobby lobby makes $14 an hour. I wouldn't exactly call that not much.
Only when compared to the minimum wage which is far below poverty level, so yeah, having to fork out $300 out of pocket for an IUD is a good chunk of change. And not exactly fair when the guy working the next register over pays $300 out of pocket for a $3,000 vasectomy, which Hobby Lobby still covers.
1) Hobby Lobby was fine with covering these meds before it was mandatory
I need a cite before I will believe this.
Sure thing.
Not relevant but show me a creditable link and it needs to be one concerning the 4 contraception they took issue with.
Pointing out hypocrisy is always relevant. Ditto that for buying products from China and the total absence of the "life begins at conception" crowd at the entrance of IVF clinics, which throw thousands of embryos in the trash. And again, sure thing.
3) All their products come from China with it's mandatory abortions
Not relevant again. Or do you think you should go to prison for something your father or brother did?
Pointing out hypocrisy is always relevant. Re the brother and the father nonsense - didn't I ask you to stop being a dumbass for five seconds?
They don't seem to be telling others how to live, just objecting to others telling them to ignore their faith and provide a couple specific things.
Just the usual rationalized bullshit. They aren't a church, they are a business. And right now, businesses owned by JW's and Scientologists and Christian Scientists are objecting to having to provide for blood transfusions/psychiatric care/any medical care. And their objections are just as "valid" as Hobby Lobby's.
No one is arguing to mess around with other people's lives except for the government. They are saying you have to provide X even if it is against your religion and hobby lobby said no I don't and a court agreed with them. That is the facts that it boils down to if you remove all the spin.
By all means, remove the spin. Hobby Lobby wants to collect tax breaks from employer-provided insurance - which is part of an employees compensation - without following the rules that come with said compensation. They're still happy to cover viagra and vasectomies though - but then you seem to be a fan of hypocrisy.
You wouldn't be double paying for it.
Of course you are, as insurance is a part of your compensation, but being arbitrarily denied for unjustifiable reasons.
IT doesn't prevent those people subjected to the loss of transfusions or psychiatric medication from gaining coverage in some other way.
Yeah. It does. Under Obomneycare, you have to take your employer's insurance plan.
There is no reason why it could not be done in the hobby lobby case or a Jehovah's Witnesses or Scientologist.
So you are in favor of abject insanity. At least that's out and on the table.
You act like the sky is falling when all you did was knock you glass off the table.
You're acting like the trashing of the 1st Amendment is no big thang. Let us know how you like it when you end up shelling out thousands of dollars just to make your crazy JW boss happy.