Hobby Lobby is a large chain of huge arts and crafts stores, mainly. They mostly sell a whole bunch of obnoxious Live Laugh Love signs, candles, other stupid kitschy crap that stereotypically adorn middle aged overweight christian wive’s homes.
If memory serves, in many states they made it so their company provided healthcare plan does not cover abortions and other healthcare related to women’s reproductive/sexual health, like contraception.
And that was before the Supreme Court ruling a few years back overturning Roe v Wade.
Beyond that, they are rather notorious for being led by evangelical christians.
Now normally you think that means great, can’t get hired if you have a tattoo or piercing or colored hair or are gender nonconforming.
In hobby lobby’s case, basically yes, and, also they paid to smuggle thousands of ancient cuneiform tablets out of Iraq.
Not long after the 2003 invasion, Baghdad’s main museum was ransacked, and some years later, hobby lobby higher ups (family owned business hyuck hyuck) paid for them to be shipped to Turkiye, where they were discovered with false documentation.
Apparently they wanted them for their private collection, though with that many, you’d need a small museum… literally criminal cultural appropriation.
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Hobby Lobby is a large chain of huge arts and crafts stores, mainly. They mostly sell a whole bunch of obnoxious Live Laugh Love signs, candles, other stupid kitschy crap that stereotypically adorn middle aged overweight christian wive’s homes.
If memory serves, in many states they made it so their company provided healthcare plan does not cover abortions and other healthcare related to women’s reproductive/sexual health, like contraception.
And that was before the Supreme Court ruling a few years back overturning Roe v Wade.
Beyond that, they are rather notorious for being led by evangelical christians.
Now normally you think that means great, can’t get hired if you have a tattoo or piercing or colored hair or are gender nonconforming.
In hobby lobby’s case, basically yes, and, also they paid to smuggle thousands of ancient cuneiform tablets out of Iraq.
Not long after the 2003 invasion, Baghdad’s main museum was ransacked, and some years later, hobby lobby higher ups (family owned business hyuck hyuck) paid for them to be shipped to Turkiye, where they were discovered with false documentation.
Apparently they wanted them for their private collection, though with that many, you’d need a small museum… literally criminal cultural appropriation.
Oh! Don’t forget they also funded the Islamic State by buying stolen antiquities. Some of these were even looted from the Iraqi State Museum.
Wow. What a terrible planet we live on.