Welcome to Obama’s America! We now live in a country where a federal
judge and federal bureaucrats determine what rights we’re allowed to have. Natural rights no longer exist. The Constitution is barely a speed bump on
the Democratic Party’s road to tyranny.
You doubt me? Under Obamacare, business
owners are being forced to violate their conscience and religious beliefs. A federal court ruled that the
plaintiff: Hobby Lobby must provide
their employees infanticide products and services or pay a $1.3 million fine
per day.
Here is an open letter from Hobby Lobby’s CEO
David Green received by LifeNews.com:
When my family and I started our company 40
years ago, we were working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling
miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn’t much bigger than most
people’s living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and
worked according to God‘s word. From there, Hobby Lobby has become one of the
nation’s largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41
states. Our children grew up into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby
Lobby together, as a family.
We’re Christians, and we run our business on
Christian principles. I’ve always said that the first two goals of our business
are (1) to run our business in harmony with God’s laws, and (2) to focus on
people more than money. And that’s what we’ve tried to do. We close early so
our employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on
Sundays, one of the week’s biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their
families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by God’s grace that
Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our employees. We’ve not
only added jobs in a weak economy, we’ve raised wages for the past four years
in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage.
But now, our government threatens to change all
of that. A new government health care mandate says that our family business
MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health
insurance. Being Christians, we don’t pay for drugs that might cause abortions,
which means that we don’t cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill
or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment
of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It
goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company since
day one. If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in
government fines.
Our government threatens to fine job creators in
a bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that’s raised wages
four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its
business according to its beliefs. It’s not right. I know people will say we
ought to follow the rules; that it’s the same for everybody. But that’s not
true. The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for
reasons of convenience or cost. But it won’t exempt them for reasons of
religious belief.
So, Hobby Lobby – and my family – are forced to
make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by
the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this
mandate before it hurts our business. We don’t like to go running into court,
but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important than the
bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit
My family has lived the American dream. We want
to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of
employees, but the government is going to make that much more difficult. The
government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following
the law. I say that’s a choice no American – and no American business – should
have to make.
Sincerely,
David Green, CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc
H/T: Weasel Zippers
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