Christian business owners and Obamacare Q

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LiveAction posted about Hobby Lobby and their predicament with Obamacare (with which they do not want to comply seeing as the owners are Christian- the business is just a regular, for-profit company.

Well, here’s what one person posted and I find it’s a hard to dispute his very good points. Is there anything we can say in HL’s defense?:

“Hobby Lobby also has the choice of whether to choose suppliers from the good ol US of A or buy everything from China where there is forced sterilization and abortion, poor health care, communism, and official atheism!! That doesn’t seem to be a big problem for them and they seem to be able to separate their business from their morals there!!”

OUCH!
 
1inICXC said:
LiveAction posted about Hobby Lobby and their predicament with Obamacare (with which they do not want to comply seeing as the owners are Christian- the business is just a regular, for-profit company.

Well, here’s what one person posted and I find it’s a hard to dispute his very good points. Is there anything we can say in HL’s defense?:

“Hobby Lobby also has the choice of whether to choose suppliers from the good ol US of A or buy everything from China where there is forced sterilization and abortion, poor health care, communism, and official atheism!! That doesn’t seem to be a big problem for them and they seem to be able to separate their business from their morals there!!”

OUCH!
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I used to shop at Hobby Lobby all the time. While it has been a while, I do not recall much in the way of things made in China. It sounds like something someone just assumed to be true because it is so common for other businesses. I would suggest asking for confirmation of the claim first.
 
1inICXC said:
“Hobby Lobby also has the choice of whether to choose suppliers from the good ol US of A or buy everything from China where there is forced sterilization and abortion, poor health care, communism, and official atheism!! That doesn’t seem to be a big problem for them and they seem to be able to separate their business from their morals there!!”
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You bring up a good point, and I certainly am not a fan of supporting the evils that are committed by the Chinese government. That said, by purchasing merchandise from China, Hobby Lobby is likely not directly supporting the Chinese government. Most likely, they are buying from private suppliers who may not even support intrinsic evils but are being forced to support the Chinese government through taxation. That’s at least one crucial degree of separation that doesn’t exist with the HHS mandate (where an employer is directly providing money to evil contraception and chemical abortificient providers).
 
Just because you buy from a Chinese company does not mean you are contributing to the Chinese government. The owners of a company could be against human rights violation

Hercules Industries, Weingartz supplies, Korte & Luitjohan Contractors, Inc are all for profit companies that have been granted an injunction from the mandate by the courts. In the brief for Korte, the court disagreed that Hobby Lobby was not granted an injunction
 
1inICXC said:
LiveAction posted about Hobby Lobby and their predicament with Obamacare (with which they do not want to comply seeing as the owners are Christian- the business is just a regular, for-profit company.

Well, here’s what one person posted and I find it’s a hard to dispute his very good points. Is there anything we can say in HL’s defense?:

“Hobby Lobby also has the choice of whether to choose suppliers from the good ol US of A or buy everything from China where there is forced sterilization and abortion, poor health care, communism, and official atheism!! That doesn’t seem to be a big problem for them and they seem to be able to separate their business from their morals there!!”

OUCH!
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Non Sequitur
 
Buying goods from someone who happens to engage in immoral practices is different from spending on or funding the immoral practices themselves. Otherwise, we can only buy from saints. Of course, it’s morally commendable for someone to boycott an establishment to send a message, but it’s not strictly wrong if you buy from them, I think.
 
raikou said:
Buying goods from someone who happens to engage in immoral practices is different from spending on or funding the immoral practices themselves. Otherwise, we can only buy from saints. Of course, it’s morally commendable for someone to boycott an establishment to send a message, but it’s not strictly wrong if you buy from them, I think.
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I see your point. But like another OP mentioned, sustaining the economy is sustaining the system. I had the same dilemma with traveling to Cubs for instance.
InigoMontoya said:
I’d disagree.

Businesses are judged on their ethical standards, who they form partnerships with is a glaring example of their ethics.
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Agreed! I like how the posters who claim it doesn’t follow add nothing to validate their point.
 
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