‘Hypocrisy at its finest’: CNN calls out Hobby Lobby for investing in birth control

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CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday highlighted the “hypocrisy” of Hobby Lobby for investing in companies that made the same birth control products that it refused to provide to female employees.

Earlier this year, Mother Jones revealed that Hobby Lobby’s retirement plan had more than $73 million invested in companies that produced emergency contraception pills. It was that same type of birth control that Hobby Lobby said it had an objection to when it took its case against President Barack Obama’s health care reform law to the Supreme Court and won.

“The critics are calling Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) investments hypocrisy at its finest,” Banfield emphasized on Wednesday, adding that CNN had not gotten an explanation from the company after giving it “plenty of time” to respond.

“I don’t even know where to begin on this one,” the CNN host remarked. “I kept thinking to myself, this had to be an accident. But then I thought, it’s no accident when you are in the middle of the biggest political storm — all the way to the Supreme Court — and, yet, your guys aren’t aware of what your investments are in your very, very large 401(k)?”

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[Thinkingabout]

1. It's "we don't care that everyone spends money in our stores, we just want to control our workers in

decisions on their own." They want to make money, don't care how it is done.

[Dawson Leery]

2. David Green, the Ayatollah of Oklahoma wants to have control over your personal life.

That is all that matters.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Ms. Banfield is asking good questions, the CNN tall foreheads must be in a panic to pull this topic.

This willful investment in the very drugs they religiously detest pulls back the veil on the entirely of their sincerity, their true bloodlust is attention and making money.

This little ditty of a fact should have a 100 recs.

[Cha]

4. Well, Wow.. good for Ashley! Thanks spanone~

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. I saw that this morning

In defense of Hobby Lobby, the point was made that the company's retirement plan investments weren't directly in companies that manufacture contraceptives, but in mutual funds that in turn make these investments. Still, Hobby Lobby had the opportunity to presumably do something about it, if this was really all about religious faith and not using religion as a pretext. I wonder if this point was raised in the court case to determine whether Hobby Lobby was really expressing and exercising a genuinely held religious view in denying contraception in employee health plans.

[They_Live]

12. Hobby Lobby should be required

to eliminate all products they sell that are made in China, a country which mandates abortion. Otherwise their religious view has no standing.

[Liberalynn]

14. +1

[Liberalynn]

13. Just saying IMHO

the only consideration that was likely given in this case was political and monetary if you get my drift.

[Trekologer]

17. Hobby Lobby could make the choice to not invest in mutual funds which have those holdings

In defense of Hobby Lobby, the point was made that the company's retirement plan investments weren't directly in companies that manufacture contraceptives, but in mutual funds that in turn make these investments.

Hobby Lobby, if not supporting or benefitting from companies that make the contraceptives they are against, could make the choice to not invest in those mutual funds. But not making that choice, Hobby Lobby is willingly putting making money ahead of their claimed values.

[sheshe2]

6. KnR

For exposure of their hypocrisy!

Thanks spanone!

[spanone]

8. another greedy corporation cloaking itself in religion.

thank you sheshe2!

[sheshe2]

9. kinda sickening isn't it, spanone

they hide behind a bible that they probably never read or for that matter have the brains to understand.

[pamela]

7. Let her know you liked it...

https://twitter.com/CNNAshleigh

[ljm2002]

10. This proves that their "belief" about birth control...

...is NOT sincerely held. And since the decision was based on their belief being sincerely held, that should nullify the decision in this case.

I know, I know: not holding my breath.

[homegirl]

11. Made in China

A conservative estimate would be that 75-80% of the goods sold in Hobby Lobby are Made in China. China! Where there have been 336 Million abortions in the past 30 years. Hypocrisy thy name is Hobby Lobby.

[Crazypolitics25]

15. If they removed all products manufactured in China

They would lose the majority of their annual profit-making sales leading to an eventual closure of thew business and the employees would be out of a job overnight.

[toby jo]

16. 'Not sincerely held' - again.

Besides which, you'd think it would drive home the point that NOT using birth control leads to overpopulation and forced abortion. So it's 1 abortion today or 2 tomorrow. It's 1 choice abortion today, or 2 against my will abortions tomorrow.

It's their hands in my granddaughter's uterus killing that which she wants.