Another Hobby Lobby Thread

[Joseph Patrick]

From Joseph Patrick...

I am hijacking this from an ongoing facebook conversation. Yesterday the president and CEO of Hobby Lobby was on a local tv program in OKC, defending their stance on birth control for employees. The thread started as a question of a "Christian" company importing so much of its products from China. As threads go, this grew to the following:
"Why is Hobby Lobby refusing to pay for some contraceptives for their female employees but OWN a co. in China called Hong Kong Connections Ltd. They pay the income tax for each employee by withholding the required percentage from the employee's gross pay. More importantly however, in this context, HL is also required by Chinese law to contribute to each employee's state-mandated health insurance plan, in this case the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance, to the tune of about 6% of the employee's pay. China requires their women to have abortions to maintain their one child policy."

I understand that the 1 child policy is SLOWLY being relaxed, but the question is "Why does Hobby Lobby obey the laws in a communist country (a country with such a poor human rights record) but try to NOT obey the law in the USA?"

What do you think?

[Sandy]

[Haruo]

Actually, the Chinese government does not require women to have abortions; abstinence is not considered a capitalist plot, and when applied it works wonders in avoiding pregnancies.

[William Thornton]

Looks like dems and libs think this a bit of leverage on HL. If a legal association with a Chinese company indicts them, then the same would indict those who buy any chinese made product.

HL does have a right to contest laws they think violate the constitution. We will see what is decided.

It is presumed that all libs believe conservative Christians to be hypocrites. Yawn.

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

[William Thornton]

[Sandy]

[Sandy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMva4WF ... ubs_digest

[Sandy]

It's even deeper for Hobby Lobby than their lack of conscientious objection to China's law and their investment. In addition to the fact that their insurance coverage provided emergency contraceptives prior to the ACA, but they didn't seem to have a problem with providing them and paying for them back then, apparently their employee pension fund is heavily invested in the companies that manufacture the very abortifacients that they claim to object to.

But gee, I sure wouldn't want to leave the impression that I automatically think conservatives are hypocrites...