It was a friend who had that experience, not a client. As far as she is concerned, Oates can burn slowly and painfully to death in a fiery pit of her own miscreation—- I'm not quoting her exactly, it's a rough summary of her words. And yeah, she is happy to shout ot the rooftops about it since nobody else would…

Because it is Obama's initiative. Many of the same republicans that are voting against it now signed on for it in 2006 under Bush:

I would agree that he has done many things to make the women of Texas suffer. I also think he is a sexist pig who has abused his power as Governor. I am so happy he will not be running again.

Minimum wage is an everyone issue. How are people against people making a living wage without working two or three jobs?

As a Texas woman I have this to say to any overpaid rich white dude who'd like to tell me what does and doesn't affect me in matters of public policy:

I think we can all safely agree that Perry really fucking hates women. I've never in my life seen someone go out of their way to make women's lives more difficult on such a consistent basis.

Where were these concerned troll Princeton professors when the women I knew were attempting to report their (both on campus and off campus) rapes? Concerned Princeton professor trolls were in "silence mode."

But if you don't look both ways before crossing the street, and I hit you with my car, IT IS STILL MY FAULT. Whether or not it could have been avoided by you taking other precautions is more or less irrelevant since I HIT YOU WITH MY CAR.

Hobby Lobby has no more free exercise right to dictate that its employees get health insurance that can't be used for contraception than to pay me through a debit card that doesn't work at liquor stores.

Not really! The employer pays for the insurance. Insurance companies by law are required to cover all prescription drugs. When employers pick the health plan, they don't have to pay extra for birth control, neither do they even have to seperately check off birth control. Birth control is just one of the prescription…

Whether you call this policy "forcing your religious beliefs on other people" is more a question of how you construct that phrase. That's just a subjective judgment on the policy, not a strawman.

The company pays the bill, but the worker earns the payment. The employee is working for that insurance coverage. It's is the employees right to not have the coverage they are working (therefore paying) for be decided by the religious beliefs of their employer. It can be decided by the amount of the bill that said…

Lolwut.

There isn't a magical difference between the money paid to employees that goes into a paycheck and the money paid to employees that funds their health insurance. All of that money belongs to the employee.

That means absolutely nothing. If the money used to pay employee insurance costs were instead included in their paycheck, the employer would have just as much of a right to determine what it is used for as they should now (none). It is compensation paid to workers for work.

The company directly pays your paycheck as…

The thing is they're not being forced to pay any extra, it is covered under employees insurance just as all prescription drugs are. Hobby lobby has to pay their employees and offer them a health care package for the work they do. If compensating their employees is against their morals, welp then too bad because…

That's so weird. Aren't the religious right the ones who are all pushing these laws for mandatory counseling when a woman wants an abortion? For the woman's health and good decision making?

The employees receive & pay for their insurance. It's part of their wages. And HL is not a religious institution, so they don't qualify. Women use BC for a vast & varied number of reasons, all of them being health related. Pregnancy does, in fact, impact the health of women. And where does it end? Do they oppose ED…

Employees pay into a company's health plan, though. It's a plan for employees, paid for by employees.

So true and this is the company that had a lawyer say sex isn't important and is not an important need. Why don't they openly say their agenda is life control for women.

The employer isn't paying for it, the employee is. Insurance coverage is part of the compensation paid to employees for their labor. Employers aren't just handing out gifts of insurance coverage to their workers for funsies.