"Should religiously-based businesses have to cover something that violates their religion, especially if the product in question is used over 80% of the time for purely recreational purposes?"
Employers are not even directly paying for birth control or contraception. They are paying for health insurance premiums. The health insurance company pays for the prescription, device or procedure. Only trained/licensed medical professionals can provide prescription contraception, abortion or procedures involving family planning. Religious freedom extends to individuals, not corporations. An individual who does not wish to use emergency contraception, due to religious reasons is perfectly acceptable. However, if that individual feels that they can hold their position as an employer over other's heads as a means to infringe on other people's freedom of religion, that is not okay. a violation of religious freedom would be forcing a business to actually take the contraceptives that they are offering. saying "It's against my religion to wash my hands after using the restroom, while I prepare your food afterwards, and I won't enforce my employees to either." It's against federal standards. As much as you can run your business as you please, you must also follow general federal law while doing it. Since it is now federal law to provide contraceptives in health insurance packages, businesses must follow it. We do not make special laws for religious people. That's not freedom of religion, that's religious privilege. Freedom of religion makes no laws respecting religion, meaning they don't get special privileges because they don't like something.
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