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I think that there is a lot that we can do and should do to accommodate other belief systems and most of it is pretty reasonable most of the time. However... I do think there are limits and the alcohol/birth control thing crosses one of them.
I just don't think that anyone whose employment duties partially include selling alcohol and/or birth control can ask for an accommodation not to do so. Either work at a place that doesn't sell those things or suck it up and pray for the people who you're selling it to. Most people's paychecks are set salaries and aren't based on the actual things that you sell or do not sell. So if these people think that abstaining from selling alcohol but receiving the partial profits from that employer's spoils in the form of a paycheck is less hypocritical, I have a hard time thinking they're either idiots or else have an ulterior motive in wanting to impose their own religious beliefs on others.
Whenever I think about these situations (mainly the pharmacist/Plan B situation that Target and Walmart pharmacies condone) I can't help but wonder whether a McDonalds could be required to allow an kosher jewish employee to refuse to sell cheeseburgers. How would that go over at a McD's? "Oh I'm sorry, I'll have to get my gentile friend over here to ring up the cash register because -- no judgment -- but I think its a sin." Yeah, right.
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