Merritt: Hobby Lobby is Not a Christian Business
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Merritt: Hobby Lobby is Not a Christian Business
Jonathan Merritt, Religion News Service: “We’re Christians,” Hobby Lobby’s president Steve Green proclaims, “and we run our business on Christian principles.” That is music to the ears of many conservative Christians, who rallied around Hobby Lobby when the retail chain argued at the Supreme Court that ObamaCare’s contraception mandate unlawfully burdened their religious beliefs. But a closer look at Hobby Lobby’s actual business practices reveals this claim to be as hollow as a flute. Turn over just about any trinket in a Hobby Lobby store and you’ll find a gold oval stamped with “Made in China,” a country that is one of the worst offenders of human dignity, unborn infant life, and economic justice anywhere in the world.
20 Years Ago, O.J. Fled Police (Slowly)
Twenty years ago today, 95 million viewers across the America were glued to their televisions as police went on a low-speed chase after a white Ford Bronco as it cruised along a Los Angeles freeway. Inside the car, O.J. Simpson was sitting in the backseat, allegedly with a gun to his head. Al “A.C.” Cowlings, Simpson’s friend and former teammate in high school, college and the NFL, was at the wheel. The police expected Simpson to turn himself on the charges of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. But he never showed up.
