A drugstore employee in WI refused to sell condoms

[Ocelot II]

182. Lawyers aren't needed; what Walgreens did was legal, if offensive.

They have to accommodate the religious beliefs of their employee, however stupid they might be (this has been the law for a long time), and they handle these situations by having another cashier ring up the purchase, which is what happened here (hardly anybody in this thread seems to have read the entire article at the link). What was wrong with the situation is that the employee was kind of snotty and in-your-face about the situation rather than simply sending the customer to another cashier without making a big deal of his religious beliefs. My fear is that Dobbs has emboldened the religious wackos to the point where they will get away with this sort of behavior more and more often, not limiting it to simply referring the customer to another cashier. What happens if all the employees at a particular store (it's certainly possible in some places) start refusing to sell contraceptives because of their religious beliefs? Walgreen's hands are tied because they have to accommodate the employees, and this Supreme Court is likely to back the employees if it got that far. That's what worries me.

If you stop at the Walgreen's in Hayward, though, please do buy some of these items and report back.