Hobby Lobby Lies

Hobby Lobby Lies

 

As this is being written, the Supreme Court of the United States is listening to pro- and con- oral arguments on the question of whether the Christian-owned and operated chain Hobby Lobby arts and crafts stores and the Mennonite Christian’s Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp are entitled to what’s left of their constitutional rights.

As usual with the lib-left abortion lobby, HuffPo has distorted the real issues before SCOTUS.
First of all, as a ”privately held company,” by definition Hobby Lobby is wholly owned by a relatively minuscule number of shareholders and does not offer or trade its stock to the general public.

HuffPo may be technically correct in asserting Hobby Lobby’s case for exemption from certain Obamacare provisions they feel are onerously immoral and based on “the religious beliefs of its shareholders.” 

However, any implication that the company is doing so out of consideration for its stock price or to satisfy the wishes of those who own Hobby Lobby stock is misleading since the chain is owned almost exclusively by members of its founding family and like-thinking, Christian relatives and friends and not by the public.

In essence, therefore, the FDA’s insistence that Hobby Lobby must subsidize abortion coverage for its employees is the equivalent of demanding a group of religious individuals must provide insurance coverage it considers morally repugnant and contrary to their rights to free expession of their religion under the First Amendment to the Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.

Secondly, and more significantly, Hobby Lobby’s ardently Christian CEO David Green has not gone to court in order to block all FDA-approved contraceptives such as Sandra Fluke’s more common favorites. 

Rather, Mr. Green reasonably objects to the federal government’s mandate that his company provide so-called “emergency contraceptives,” a euphemism for early abortions, or else pay steep fines for the privilege of exercising and defending fundamental precepts of his faith.

Green contends his ”family’s religious beliefs forbid them from participating in, providing access to, paying for, training others to engage in, or otherwise supporting abortion-causing drugs and devices.” . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36467.)