Hypocrisy and deceit--two adjectives that accurately define the arts and crafts chain, Hobby Lobby Inc.
The company, closely held by the Green family, is the major challenger to contraception-benefit requirements under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Hobby Lobby's owners want the Supreme Court to validate their claim that personal religious objections should be extended to corporations.
What they don't reveal is that the company's retirement plan owns milions of dollars in mutual funds investing in companies that produce emergency contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices and drugs commonly used in abortion.
Oops.
Greeners believe interferring with an already-fertilized egg is tantamount to abortion--an act unacceptable to the family.
But the family has no problem with profitting from companies that manufacture the very products that offend their religious principles. (6 APRIL 2014)
