Hobby Lobby thinks it’s essential. It’s really not.
Wednesday evening to halt its operations in the state. Hobby Lobby’s practice of disregarding state public safety orders appears to be widespread, having also occurred in North Carolina and Indiana, and part of a companywide effort to evade state closure orders. A March 28 Hobby Lobby memo obtained byoutlined talking points for store managers on “how to respond and communicate if visited by a local authority that asks why we are open.
David Green, the founder and head of Hobby Lobby, is a well-known evangelical conservative who waged a successful Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act over its requirement that family-owned corporations pay for coverage that includes contraception.
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