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Hobby shop chain faces backlash for stance against ObamaCare (HOBBY LOBBY)
Fox News ^ | 9-20-2012 | Perry Chiaramonte

Posted on 09/20/2012 11:50:19 AM PDT by servo1969

A Christian-owned chain of hobby shops is facing a bitter backlash after suing the Obama administration over new requirements to provide insured employees with contraceptive and abortion coverage.

Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby filed the suit Sept. 12 in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, alleging that the ObamaCare mandate violates the religious beliefs of the company's owners. The suit followed similar suits by Catholic colleges and a Denver-based company whose owners also objected to the mandate on religious grounds. While a judge has not yet ruled on Hobby Lobby's suit, a Facebook page calling for a boycott of the company, which operates 500 stores in 41 states, has appeared online, and several other forums have featured posts urging customers to steer clear of Hobby Lobby.

“I’m boycotting Hobby Lobby!” reads the heading of one posting on image posting site Flickr. “Even if you're pro-life this kind of action stinks to high heaven! If things like this can be allowed then what's next?!,” the user added.

Others have taken to social media to protest against Hobby Lobby, with a “Boycott Hobby Lobby” page on Facebook.

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Hobby Lobby owner David Green is a devout Baptist who owns one of the world's largest collections of Biblical artifacts. The Barret Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents Green in his suit, argued that compliance with the offending portion of the health care law that the nature of their suit is “would force religiously-motivated business owners like plaintiffs to violate their faith under the threats of millions of dollars in fines.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elections; hobbylobby; obama; prolife; tyranny
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Time to take up a new hobby. I'll have to stop by Hobby Lobby this weekend.
1 posted on 09/20/2012 11:50:23 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Yep. Time for the anti-boycott.


2 posted on 09/20/2012 11:51:54 AM PDT by verum ago (Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
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To: servo1969

Time for a Hooby Lobby support day, don’t you think?


3 posted on 09/20/2012 11:52:16 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
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To: servo1969

Democrat shills and sychophants have no hobbies, unless you want to count trolling for EBT cards, WICs certificates, getting a Section 8 voucher, making the TANF list or actually rounding up enough dependents to qualify for an EITC ‘refund’....

I suspect there won’t be much business loss here.


4 posted on 09/20/2012 11:53:03 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: servo1969

Looks like everyone on my Christmas list will be getting a gift from Hobby Lobby. One stop shopping.


5 posted on 09/20/2012 11:53:24 AM PDT by heylady (“Sometimes I wish I could be a Democrat and then I remember I have a soul.”( Deb))
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To: servo1969
Must be something I need at Hobby Lobby. Maybe I can get a paint set to decorate Chick-Fil-A bag and use them for Halloween.
6 posted on 09/20/2012 11:53:58 AM PDT by dblshot (Insanity: electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: servo1969

Time to go buy some more HO scale choo-choos, rolling stock, track and turnouts.


7 posted on 09/20/2012 11:53:58 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: servo1969

I’ve not shopped there before but I think I’’ll go there and look around this evening.


8 posted on 09/20/2012 11:54:25 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again")
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To: servo1969

“bitter backlash” - bwhahahahahha. There’s never been a single facebook boycot that amounted to anything. When one is mounted against a conservative business that businesses sales generally increase.


9 posted on 09/20/2012 11:55:11 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: servo1969

Chik-fil-A DID NOT cave or give consessions

They merely stated their EXISTING policy, and the homos claimed victory.

Hobby Lobby can benefit too

http://www.hobbylobby.com/StoreLocator/


10 posted on 09/20/2012 11:55:29 AM PDT by Mr. K (Washington is where good ideas go to die- Ronald Reagan)
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To: verum ago

Obama is the only true hobby LOL


11 posted on 09/20/2012 11:57:25 AM PDT by molson209
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To: servo1969

Hmmm... there’s one of these places not far from me. Will have to stop there today. I have rarely been there because it’s not really a “hobby” store in my sense of what a hobby store should be. It’s more like an arts and crafts store. A hobby store should have model trains and cars and aircraft and rockets and tools and stamps and coins and etc etc etc...

They have a few (very few) things on that list, such as a few cheap model rockets, but it’s not the hobby superstore I thought it was going to be.


12 posted on 09/20/2012 11:58:29 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: servo1969

I began posting all over Facebook on this last weekend. I support Hobby Lobby...just as I support the Catholic Church or any other institution that feels it is not only rediculous but also violates their constitutional/unalienable rights to be forced to pay for contraceptives, birth control, or aboirtion procedures against their conscience.

I went to the Hobby Lobby in Boise after work on Tuesday and spent $50 precisely because of this and let them know why. We all need to do simiarly IMHO. I hope Huckabee or someone with national exposure organizes a “Buy Hobby Lobby Day,” and I will go again and spend another $50 in support.

Here’s the link I had at the time:

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/09/17/hobby-lobby-faces-liberal-boycott-after-suing-over-hhs-mandate/


13 posted on 09/20/2012 11:58:42 AM PDT by Jeff Head ( Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: circlecity

I’m curious as to what about the “action stinks to high heaven”...

Not capitulating to being forced to pay for abortion, abortifacients, and sterlization?


14 posted on 09/20/2012 11:59:21 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: servo1969

To even consider shopping at Hobby Lobby, a person must have worthwhile skills or enough self respect to aspire to develope worthwhile skills. A boycott by the pro-death crowd will cost Hobby Lobby exactly nothing.


15 posted on 09/20/2012 11:59:56 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: servo1969

I will support them, but I wish they had better customer service. The people are nice enough, but are never around when you need them....and the lines at the cash registers are very slow.


16 posted on 09/20/2012 12:01:45 PM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: servo1969
Hobby Lobby owner David Green is a devout Baptist who owns one of the world's largest collections of Biblical artifacts.

I've seen it.

Mind-blowing. Big enough it warrants its own museum. Took 3 hours just for a cursory glance through what he had displayed.

17 posted on 09/20/2012 12:02:40 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: servo1969

I LOVE Hobby Lobby - all the more reason to shop there even more, now!!


18 posted on 09/20/2012 12:04:37 PM PDT by MasonGal
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To: Mr. Lucky

“To even consider shopping at Hobby Lobby, a person must have worthwhile skills or enough self respect to aspire to develope worthwhile skills. A boycott by the pro-death crowd will cost Hobby Lobby exactly nothing.”

I was going to offer a similar comment. My wife shops there all the time. She can sew and practices a variety of craft activities. Many of the people that shop there have kids with them. It is an extremely “family” oriented crowd, and the stores are closed on Sunday’s.

I haven’t seen Ms. Fluke or her ilk in there yet, nor are we likely to!


19 posted on 09/20/2012 12:06:49 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Gaffer
I suspect there won’t be much business loss here.

Me either.

20 posted on 09/20/2012 12:07:44 PM PDT by MEGoody (You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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