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Control-Z

(15,682 posts) Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:47 PM Jun 2014

Sidewalk counseling in front of Hobby Lobby stores

Last edited Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:21 PM - Edit history (2)

has been suggested by frazzled in another thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5170628

Maybe what we (you and I, and anyone else who cares to join us) needs to do is set up shop every day, before 10 am, outside a local Hobby Lobby store ... closer than 35 feet to its entrance, for sure! ... and "counsel" the women employees who are coming to enter the store. We can "gently" inform them about the incredibly anti-woman views of their owners, and encourage them to quit their jobs there. We might even try to help them find better jobs. We could give them "brochures."

(Edit to add: I meant to include that I thought the customers should be the target of this counseling - to fight for the employees. It appears I accidentally edited that out.)

I would love to see this happen in front of every Hobby Lobby store in the country - the same way anti-choicers "counsel" in front of women's clinics; close up and personal. We would need a brochure full of facts about Hobby Lobby including their investments in companies that manufacture abortifacients, and that the Supreme Court seems to believe women are a threat to people and corporations. There should also be a strong statement about the fact that denying a woman contraceptives could lead to her death. Call Hobby Lobby out on it the way anti-choicers call women "baby murderers".

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Sidewalk counseling in front of Hobby Lobby stores (Original Post) Control-Z Jun 2014 OP

Is harassing the employees really the best answer? missingthebigdog Jun 2014 #1

Actually, that is what I meant. I had a sentence there about Control-Z Jun 2014 #3

My guess is that they don't have much choice Ilsa Jun 2014 #2

I meant to suggest Hobby Lobby's Control-Z Jun 2014 #5

Actually denying contraception leads to sunnystarr Jun 2014 #4

100% correct. Control-Z Jun 2014 #6

Also counsel customers that Hobby Lobby hates women emsimon33 Jun 2014 #7

It is so obvious they hate women. Control-Z Jun 2014 #9

Make sure you are on the PUBLIC sidewalk musette_sf Jun 2014 #8

That is good advice. Control-Z Jun 2014 #10

missingthebigdog

(1,233 posts)

1. Is harassing the employees really the best answer?

Reply to Control-Z (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:52 PM

Jun 2014

It would seem that counseling the CUSTOMERS would make more sense. . . .

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

3. Actually, that is what I meant. I had a sentence there about

Reply to missingthebigdog (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:16 PM

Jun 2014

counseling the customers. I must have accidentally edited it out. I'll fix that.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)

2. My guess is that they don't have much choice

Reply to Control-Z (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 05:55 PM

Jun 2014

In where they work.

A worker I met several years ago in a nearby HL hated it there and was actively looking for other work.

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

5. I meant to suggest Hobby Lobby's

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:24 PM

Jun 2014

customers should be counseled. My mistake. I corrected it in my OP.

sunnystarr

(2,638 posts)

4. Actually denying contraception leads to

Reply to Control-Z (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:20 PM

Jun 2014

abortion. So Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court have increased the number of abortions.

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

6. 100% correct.

Reply to sunnystarr (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:26 PM

Jun 2014

And women will find a way to abort even when there are no affordable or legal options available to them.

emsimon33

(3,128 posts)

7. Also counsel customers that Hobby Lobby hates women

Reply to Control-Z (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 07:20 PM

Jun 2014

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

9. It is so obvious they hate women.

Reply to emsimon33 (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:26 PM

Jun 2014

The more I read the more pissed off I get. I just read a post that the 5 haters are all Roman Catholics. I don't know if that is a fact, but if it is then the SCOTUS has become a joke. There is no justice when a majority religion rules.

musette_sf

(10,200 posts)

8. Make sure you are on the PUBLIC sidewalk

Reply to Control-Z (Original post)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 07:21 PM

Jun 2014

since many of these cheap nasty junk shops are in shopping centers, where the sidewalk in front is private property.

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

10. That is good advice.

Reply to musette_sf (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:28 PM

Jun 2014

Somehow I think there is far more tolerance for the anti-choice crowd and their harrassment than we could ever hope for.

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