Since Hobby Lobby is so concerned about abortion, why do they get the goods from China, who has...

[warrior1]

a one child limit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24957303

I would think that this would conflict with their beliefs. Or is Chinese labor and products ok to their bottom line.

[frazzled]

1. Oh, snap! /nt

[zbdent]

2. Because pandering to the Right Wing is more profitable ...

profits over morality.

[Scuba]

9. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

[earthside]

3. Capital 'H' is not for Hobby, it is for Hypocrite.

Look at it this way ...

Hobby Lobby buys and imports massive quantities of products made in Communist China. Indeed, a large portion of the arts, crafts and decor products it sells are made exclusively for Hobby Lobby by Chinese laborers.

Of course, these sweat shops in China for the most part are run by or are in partnership with the government of Communist China.

Hobby Lobby really is paying a lot of money to support the Chinese government and its one-child policy (the recent announcement of a change was nominal) that essentially mandates abortion and all kinds of contraception.

So, by shopping at Hobby Lobby, you are actually enabling and encouraging forced abortion and contraception for hundreds and thousands of Chinese women. Ironic, uh?

All to the point that Hobby Lobby owner/founder/CEO David Green is one of the biggest hypocrites in the United States. It seems that he gets 'religion' only when he thinks it might affect his bottom-line.

Indeed, Green infamously wrote either last year or earlier this year that: "... honoring God is more important than turning a profit."

David Green is a LIAR.

Green and Hobby Lobby are entirely dependent upon turning a profit by selling Chinese-made products -- products made under a regime that officially is atheist and pro-abortion.

[Ken Burch]

4. The country they import from is "China", not "Communist China"

What the Chinese regime does has nothing whatsoever to do with the ideas of Marx and Engels. the "Communist Party" there is full of millionaires, and the streets of the large cities teem with both luxury hotels and the homeless. And the foreign policy of China is not driven by proletarian internationalism, but by good old right-wing nationalism(and Mandarin-supremacist nationalism at that).

Please don't use Cold War rhetoric, especially rhetoric that wasn't even accurate DURING the Cold War.

Neither genuine socialism nor genuine communism has happened anywhere yet.

[earthside]

7. You are missing the intended irony.

Hobby Lobby doing business with (if not literally partners with) a 'communist' government.

Besides ... are there other political parties in China?

Or is it a one party state ... the communist party?

[Ken Burch]

20. it's a one party state, a dictatorship...that doesn't MEAN it's communist.

I saw the intended irony, but was pointing out that it wasn't ironic at all. Hobby Lobby(and WalMart) are just like the Chinese government: they are right-wing anti-worker dictatorships.

What China (and the Soviet Union in its day)had was dictatorship...but "dictatorship" isn't synonymous with "communism". There have been many dictatorships in world history just as vile as those states have or had that didn't even claim to have any connection with the idea of "communism"...

Small-c communism(which hasn't happened and may never happened) doesn't actually have to be a dictatorship at all. People don't have to struggle to provide daily necessities for themselves in order to be free. In fact, those struggling to survive(or to "move up" or "make it" in the American sense) are usually the most unfree people of all...the process makes them harsh, inflexible, intolerant and obsessively conformist. This is why so many of those people end up embracing some form of "fundamentalist" religion.

[JHB]

22. All fine points, but when it comes to slapping self-righteous RWrs with their own rhetoric...

...then "communist China" is the term of choice.

This isn't a debating society with rules for being incorrect on technical points. It's about spelling out that people who loudly proclaim "no compromise" are in fact perfectly willing to do so.

[Ken Burch]

23. I understand your intent.

An even earlier irony, and a far deeper one, was that the corporate wing of the GOP actually became, during the Bush administration, the most uncompromising defenders of the Chinese regime in all of American politics. I've always remembered watching #41 making a brief statement after the Tienenman Square massacre in which he looked far more miffed at the press for expecting him to denouncing the slaughter of innocent human beings than at the actual slaughter itself(about which he appeared to be slightly less annoyed than he would have been if he'd gone to his country club and been told his tee-off time would be slightly delayed because a foursome of Irish Catholics were out there ahead of him.)

[3catwoman3]

5. Why indeed?

My husband and I have raised this very question many times. The whole store is packed to the rafters with goods from China. Talk about the ultimate in hypocrisy.

One of many places I no longer shop.

[spanone]

6. it's worse, they are concerned about CONTRACEPTIVES!!!!!

[warrior1]

8. Sounds like they need a good old-fashioned American boycott

[SoapBox]

15. +1000000000000000000000000000000000

[UTUSN]

10. R#11 & K n/t

[Heather MC]

11. they only care about white babies being aborted

white women need to get their butts in the kitchen with no shoes and stay pregnant
got it.

[Vashta Nerada]

12. But the Hobby Lobby does good!

I mean, who cares if they believe in limiting women's reproductive rights. They donate some of their profits to charity: http://www.hobbylobby.com/our_company/considerations.cfm

[SoapBox]

13. What about Viagra?

[WowSeriously]

14. It's always about the bottom line and power over people.

And religion holds the greatest power over the most people. Anyone claiming religious conviction as a motivating force is full of Scheisse.

[DallasNE]

16. Most Hobby Lobby Employees Don't Have A Health Insurance Benefit

The management employees that do probably pay roughly half of the insurance premium amount so why don't the employees have any say in what coverage they get. The Court is really stepping into the swamp if they decide the owner that is paying half the premium trumps the employee that pays the other half. No equal protection and the establishment of religious values on the backs of the employees. They should be able to knock this down on several fronts but I don't expect that to happen.

[CFLDem]

17. Because self righteousness

is all about public appearances and not about substance.

[warrior1]

18. kick

[dembotoz]

19. they just want americans whom work for them to have biblical third world health care

remember jesus was not born in a modern hospital and he turned out ok..........

[Sheri]

21. good point. nt