Hobby Lobby accused of hypocrisy amid smuggling case [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Kelly P. Kissel, Associated Press
Updated 9:15 pm, Thursday, July 6, 2017
Hobby Lobby , the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy.
The Oklahoma City-based business agreed to pay a $3 million fine Wednesday over its role in what federal prosecutors said was the smuggling into the U.S. of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that might have been looted from the war-torn country.
Online, many people piled on, with more than one saying things like: "I know Hobby Lobby's big on the Ten Commandments, but how about 'Thou shalt not steal'?" and "Hypocritical cretins. Preach one thing and practice another."
Hobby Lobby, whose president, Steve Green, has been collecting ancient artifacts since 2009 and is building an $800 million Bible museum in Washington, pleaded naivete in doing business with dealers in the Middle East.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Hobby-Lobby-fined-3-million-over-smuggled-Iraqi-11268856.php
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