This debate is getting weirder and weirder

The Arizona Legislature has passed a strange birth control bill. (AP Photo)

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As you know, some church organizations don’t want their
health insurance plans to include birth control for female
employees.

So the Arizona Legislature has a new bill which would
give religious employers the right to opt out on moral
grounds, but not only that, they could even fire a female
employee who goes out and buys the birth control on her
own!

And not only that, the bill would let ANY NON-CHURCH
employer, who has a moral problem with birth control, deny
benefits unless a woman could prove she needed the pills
for something other than birth control, like uterine
endometriosis.

The bill’s supporters say that’s reasonable. She would
just have to give the boss a heads up that she has
endometriosis of the uterus, or some other medical
condition. So kind of inconvenient, but on the positive
side: guys, you don’t have a uterus! So your medical
problems are none of their business!

Anyway, the net effect of this policy is that at
certain companies, female employees will have to think
twice about having sex just for the pleasure of it. And
you have to admit, there’s too much of that going on
anyway.

Probably because sex is a pretty strong instinct, or so
I hear. Which leads me to suppose female employees,
desperate to express their heterosexuality without risking
pregnancy — just lie about having endometriosis of the
uterus, and thus compromise the morals of their religious
employers anyway. This may be something that even
Arizona can’t stop.

Unless, if a company or a religious organization wanted
to be 100 percent sure that their employees aren’t
sneaking off and using birth control…they could hire
only gay people.

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