Hobby Lobby Head Addresses Birth Control Hypocrisy

[RockaFowler]

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/exclusive-hobby-lobby-owner-speaks?cid=sm_m_main_1_20141010_33297857

Steve Green, president of the Hobby Lobby craft store chain whose objections to offering coverage for some forms of contraception led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling last summer, responded for the first time to questions about his company’s investments in pharmaceutical corporations that produce contraception and abortion drugs.

Those investments drew charges of hypocrisy after the company went to the high court to opt out of covering four forms of contraception on its insurance plan. Green also discussed the evidence, or lack thereof, that contraception interferes with a fertilized egg.

“That is several steps removed,” Green told msnbc on Thursday when approached at a conference on religious liberty at Cedarville University, referring to revelations reported in Mother Jones in April that Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) plan invested in corporations that produce contraception and abortion drugs. “Whether they do or not [invest in these drugs and devices], I couldn’t confirm or deny it. I don’t know if it’s even true. Of course, the other question I would ask is, do those companies also provide a lot of life-saving products that our employees are dependent on? I don’t know that either. But we’ve not made any changes.”

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1. so if a hobby lobby employee saves lives nightly as an emt, they'll pay for her birth control pills?

or is it just companies that make life-saving products who can "murder babies"?

[Thinkingabout]

2. Is he trying to crawfish his decision?

It still upsets me this employer has attempted to control the employees decisions.

[Dawson Leery]

3. The best thing we can do is to not shop at Taliban Steve's stores.

[TeamPooka]

4. When you cant' confirm or deny anything you're a lying asshole.

[ieoeja]

5. Does he actually think that disputes hypocrisy?

"That is several steps removed."
Two steps: (1) You invest in the company. (2) The company makes birth control.
Versus three steps: (1) You supplement an employees purchase of health insurance. (2) She purchases insurance that covers birth control. (3) She buys and uses birth control.


"Whether they do or not , I couldn’t confirm or deny it."
Whether your employee uses birth control or not, you couldn't confirm or deny it.


"Do those companies also provide a lot of life-saving products that our employees are dependent on? I don’t know that either."
Does that health insurance provide a lot of life-saving products that your employees are dependent on? You actually know to answer to that is, "yes".


Steve Green needs a little help with remedial logic.

[marble falls]

6. His hypocrisy knows no bounds.