While We're Supporting a Boycott of Hobby Lobby,

[MineralMan]

the fundamentalist christian right is promoting exactly the opposite. Now, I can't say how many DUers are active crafts people who purchase quantities of the Chinese-made crap Hobby Lobby sells, but a lot of fundamentalist christian women most definitely do buy that stuff.

A Google search for "Support Hobby Lobby" will find a number of websites that are encouraging women to go shop at Hobby Lobby even more often than they already do. The fundamentalist christian right will put money and effort into increasing sales at that business, even while sensible people are refusing to have anything to do with Hobby Lobby. It's likely to be a wash, and Hobby Lobby is likely to continue to be in business.

The battle will not be won through boycotts, I'm afraid. Instead, it will only be won when voters stop sending Republicans to Congress and to state legislators. In November, we have an important mid-term election, where we will elect every member of the House of Representatives and a third of U.S. Senators. We'll also be electing state legislators in almost every state.

Elections are where we will make changes, but only if we are willing to do the hard work of getting every possible Democratic voter to the polls to elect Democratic majorities in Congress and state legislatures. That is how we will make the changes that are needed. That is where we need to put our energy to work. It won't happen overnight, but if we do that in 2014, 2016 and in every future election, we can change the course of the United States.

Will we do that? Well, I'll be trying my best. How about you?

GOTV 2014 and Beyond!

[blkmusclmachine]

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[MineralMan]

2. Thanks for the kick!

[genwah]

3. Thank you! The last craft thing I did was a lanyard at summer camp, 45 years ago. But I can sure

walk precincts. You wouldn't happen to be in Tennessee, would you? http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025193215

[MineralMan]

4. I'm in Minnesota. Thanks for helping to GOTV!

[Historic NY]

5. Hobby Lobby stinks...

it deliberately opened a store next to AC Moore here to syphon off business.

We are lucky because the region has several Michaels, A.C. Moore and Jo-Ann fabrics or stores, along with a couple Pier I Imports.

[MineralMan]

6. I've never been in one. I've been in Michaels and Jo-Ann, though.

But, I'm not really doing craft projects these days.

I did read in the St. Paul newspaper, though, that HL is opening a store near me. In fact, Hobby Lobby ran a full page ad on the back page of the front section of that paper today. It was a Rah-Rah America ad. Only if you looked closely at the bottom of the ad did you see that Hobby Lobby paid for the ad.

People will shop there. Not me, but some people. I'm about changing government to fix this stuff.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I read that something like 90% of American businesses are "closely held "

One of the nuggets in stories about Hobby Lobby this week.

guess we better find out who they are and start boycotting them,,,

FWIW..I was in Hobby Lobby just once, in Mobile, in 2005.
It had a weird vibe...seriously, it did. We left without gettng what we were after.

[MineralMan]

8. That's correct. It's a real worry.

[Horse with no Name]

9. You are correct but

they already shopped there due to the Christian kitsch that they sold.

What they are going to lose is the other business...and if done correctly, will be significant.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. In reality, opposition to birth control is very rare among Protestant fundies. Abortion they oppose

but not contraception. Their attempts to promote Hobby Lobby via religious grounds will not be well received in the whole of that community.

This is probably an alien concept to you, but people refuse to give business to a company not just to harm the company but also out of basic respect for self. I have no need to see some massive result to make me feel good about spending my money where I want to and never where I don't want to. It's not about what happens to their company, but what happens to my self respect.

Taking a stand is never, ever 'a wash'.

[lunatica]

11. Yeah, but probably double or triple that amount are now boycotting Hobby Lobby

I've never been there because maybe they aren't in California, but now I'll NEVER go there.

[silverweb]

12. There's one here in Sacramento.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'd never heard of them before, either, and had no idea if they were in California -- until I rode right past one a few weeks ago that I'd never noticed before. Have never gone inside and now never will.