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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI 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.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)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)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)but the government surely wouldn't!
I've been saying the same thing since forever myself.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)Maybe they did that on purpose
mockmonkey
(2,815 posts)Blue Owl
(50,383 posts)Behind their deeply religious convictions, it's just a bunch of cheap-labor republicans.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Example is regulation, pollution, worker rights, etc. Slippery slope that they are kicking us down..