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The Blue Flower

(5,442 posts)
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:10 PM Dec 2013

I got a response from Hobby Lobby

What I wrote to them:
I'm sure you are aware that policies in China force women to undergo abortions and forced sterilization, yet you support those policies by buying and importing massive amounts of goods made by slave labor. How can you possibly claim a moral right to deny your American employees their own right to practice their own religious values and not have them dictated by an employer? In refusing to follow the law of the land, the Affordable Care Act, your corporation has declared itself to be un-American in fact and in values. As far as I'm concerned you are an anti-American company and I will never again shop at Hobby Lobby. You have neither the legal nor moral standing to deny employees their rights as Americans.


How they responded:

The Greens and their family businesses have asked the courts to relieve them of the obligation under the Affordable Care Act to provide four specific potentially life--‐threatening drugs and devices in conflict with their deeply held religious convictions. The Greens and their family businesses have no moral objection to the use of the other 16 contraceptives required by the Affordable Care Act and will continue their longstanding practice of providing them to employees under the Hobby Lobby health insurance plan. For more information, I would encourage you to go to the Hobby Lobby website on the case and read the FAQ section there. The address is http://hobbylobbycase.com.


And, yes, perhaps the Chinese are now loosening their restrictions on reproductive rights, but HL has been doing business them for years, despite such strict policies.

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I got a response from Hobby Lobby (Original Post) The Blue Flower Dec 2013 OP
they're full of bs warrior1 Dec 2013 #1
Many of their products are the shittiest crap ever. The same $20 chipboard bookcase from WalMart Erose999 Dec 2013 #2
If it is good for Hobby Lobby ... earthside Dec 2013 #3
Not sure about the Greens xulamaude Dec 2013 #4
Bad link on the website listed MiniMe Dec 2013 #5
Remove the period at the end mockmonkey Dec 2013 #7
Slobby Lobby's Sweatshop Bounty Blue Owl Dec 2013 #6
Fluke in a recent debate with Sanctorum in 1A rights said that... freshwest Dec 2013 #8

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
2. Many of their products are the shittiest crap ever. The same $20 chipboard bookcase from WalMart
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:26 PM
Dec 2013

with a faux "distressed" finish on it... marked up like 1000%. I don't care if it was painted by Jesus himself, a shitty MDF or chipboard bookcase is not worth $300.

earthside

(6,960 posts)
3. If it is good for Hobby Lobby ...
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:42 PM
Dec 2013

Here is my position paraphrasing the very same words as the Hobby Lobby response:

My family and I will be asking the courts to relieve us of the obligation under Internal Revenue Code to provide funds to the federal government that are appropriated to the Department of Defense that are potentially life-threatening i.e., war, military attacks, weapons procurement, covert operations on and in foreign nations in conflict with our deeply held religious convictions. My family and I have no moral objection to the use of income taxes collected by the federal government for the purposes of assisting in maintaining a minimal level of social and economic quality of life for the residents of the United States.


Do you think the Green family would get on board with my religious convictions?
 

xulamaude

(847 posts)
4. Not sure about the Greens
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 12:58 PM
Dec 2013

but the government surely wouldn't!

I've been saying the same thing since forever myself.

Blue Owl

(50,383 posts)
6. Slobby Lobby's Sweatshop Bounty
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 01:29 PM
Dec 2013

Behind their deeply religious convictions, it's just a bunch of cheap-labor republicans.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
8. Fluke in a recent debate with Sanctorum in 1A rights said that...
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 10:45 PM
Dec 2013
Corporations do not get to pick and choose what laws or parts of laws they will follow...

Example is regulation, pollution, worker rights, etc. Slippery slope that they are kicking us down..
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