Pierce: Hobby Lobby Adopts the College Spring Breaker's Attitude Towards Coronavirus

[mcar]

Hobby Lobby Adopts the College Spring Breaker's Attitude Towards Coronavirus
Don't worry: God spoke to the CEO's wife.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAR 23, 2020

The Greens are the people who run the Hobby Lobby empire and, after they won their great victory by which corporations can pretend to be religious in order to refuse to pay for birth control, the Greens have been having a bit of a rough time. They spent bazillions of dollars to build a Museum of The Bible in Washington that has turned into a magnet for all manner of thieves and grifters. First, the Greens got caught smuggling artifacts out of Iraq and, last week, it was revealed that they’d been taken for suckers by people who peddled the Greens alleged fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls that were as fake as their corporation’s piety.

Then, of course, the pandemic came to town, and people were told to stay home and not go to work. However, the Greens took the matter to a higher authority. From the Christian Post:

Green said the Lord put on Barbara’s heart three profound words to remind us that He’s in control. “Guide, Guard, and Groom. We serve a God who will Guide us through this storm, who will Guard us as we travel to places never seen before, and who, as a result of this experience, will Groom us to be better than we could have ever thought possible before now.”

This is plainly nuts. It also is plainly un-Christian to exploit an underpaid workforce at a time of international crisis. We’ve all seen those easily deplorable videos of drunk college kids partying hardily down south during spring break. Here we have a major corporation telling its employees to risk their health because God spoke to the CEO’s wife. Who’s worse, really? Those ancient scrolls are not the only phony thing about Hobby Lobby’s religiosity.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31899781/hobby-lobby-coronavirus-open-god-in-control/

[SoCalNative]

1. Probably not open

in localities that have ordered shutdown of non-essential business. And if they are, I hope that they are only doing curbside pick-up like Michael's.

[gibraltar72]

4. Actually they said they would violate Ohios rule.

[SoCalNative]

9. Then Ohio should send in the National Guard

and shut them down.

[gibraltar72]

10. I am in agreement.

I had a vision from Gawd of them being dragged away in irons.

[malaise]

2. Grifters and snake oil sales men and women

Let them cull their own herd

[mcar]

3. Yeah, and not take their minimum wage employees with them

[malaise]

6. Indeed

I only have pity for their workers

[peacefreak2.0]

5. It looks like a good swath of heinous pissant will be wiped out.

Another good reason for not going to the diseased Hobby Lobby. (Sitting on my own stash.)😄

[JHB]

7. Worse. The Spring Breakers are idiots on their own behalf...

The Greens are forcing their idiocy onto their employees.

That, when the Greens can actually afford to pay their employees for something like 10 weeks and still only dent their net worth by less than 4%.

[mcar]

8. That's right