Did Hobby Lobby buy a full-page "In God We Trust" ad today in your local paper?

[Ron Green]

They did in mine. Quotes from early US Presidents, Founding Fathers, court justices, university charters, all sorts of luminaries from history, affirming the need for guidance from The Almighty and in some cases the need for Christianity.

I don't think I'd ever seen one advertiser buy the entire back page of the "A" section of this paper. Now I wonder how detached the editorial staff will remain going forward.

I know, I know... you don't read the local paper. But if you do, and if there's a HL in your town, check in and let me know if this happened today where you are.

[conservaphobe]

1. Apparently, they were nationwide. Found this on Twitter:

[yeoman6987]

28. What a waste of money

Who on Earth gets the newspaper today? If they really wanted to do something, put it all over the internet. That is where people get their news today. Oh well, their money.

[misterhighwasted]

2. Money & Profit Is Their GOD

Greed for Money gathers supporters by holding Souls Hostage.

The word 'GOD', in the profit driven bible, means something entirely different than in the christian bible.

GOD = Profit$ in the profit driven bible.

Righties are idiots & the Devil is hard at work here & laughing all the way to the bank.

[Cha]

18. Right, mhw.. the "G" isn't for God it's for Greed.. sneaky sociopaths are hiding behind "God".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Yep

[Crunchy Frog]

4. It was yesterday or the day before, here.

I was going to come on here and ask about it.

[PSPS]

5. Papers, radio & TV stations will never print/air anything critical of an advertiser.

[madamvlb]

6. Times Herald Record

This is the Hudson Valley NY's paper, whole page ad on page 17. July 4th 2014.

[Cha]

19. So gross.. hope it backfires on their Greedy a$$es.

[Uncle Joe]

7. The only "In God We Trust" they care about is printed on Caesar's money.

Thanks for the thread, Ron Green.

[Cha]

20. Good point, UJ.. that's right, I forgot about that printed on the MONIE$$$$$$.

[Skittles]

8. disgusting

they, and the Supreme Court five, are HYPOCRITES

[Brickbat]

9. If all it took were a full-page ad to get editorial staffs to write a certain way,

it would be a lot easier to sell full-page ads.

[Hekate]

10. Ewww. We don't take the local fishwrap, so I don't know. Doesn't seem to be in the LA Times...

... which is what we take.

[CBGLuthier]

11. Would not know. I have boycotted my local paper for 20 years

Twice as long as I have boycotted Hobby Lobby.

I am sure they did though since I live where they have their corporate headquarters and the newspaper here is the worst paper in america (Columbia Journalism Review) and as RW as you can get.

The CJR said of the Daily Oklahoman, “The Daily Oklahoman has become a newspaper in reverse, sucking intelligence from its readers.”

I stopped letting them suck from me years ago.

[Cha]

21. Props to you, CBGLuthier!

[MineralMan]

12. Yes. St. Paul Pioneer Press.

[Cha]

13. Fuck Hobby Lobby and their using "God" to hide behind.

[Initech]

14. If they did I know what to use as toilet paper tomorrow.

[hatrack]

15. Yes, and my only regret is that it wasn't on the dining room table today when the cat puked

A full PAGE of that bullshit.

Yeesh.

[jmowreader]

16. They may have only bought the back page of papers in towns they're in

I just checked my paper, and it's not in there. I didn't get a Spokane paper from 7/4/14 so I couldn't look there.

[Quantess]

17. I don't blame newspapers for taking the money.

Newspapers are a withering breed and they need advertisers. That said, fuck Hobby Lobby!

[rusty fender]

22. If "God" is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent

Then why would you ever have to invoke its name or take out a full-page ad? If you feel that you have to defend "God" then haven't you already admitted that it is not any of the above?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. This ^ ^ ^

[area51]

24. They've been taking out full page ads for quite a while.

You'll usually see them for Easter & Christmas.

[flvegan]

25. Yes, Friday's Tampa Bay Times had one.

Odd that I even got the paper on Friday, I'm not a daily subscriber.

[Zambero]

26. Trust is earned

And on that basis, Hobby Lobby is spurned. As for God's role in this fiasco, wrapping oneself in a media-driven religious blanket is always cause for suspicion, especially regarding large for-profit corporations that pull out all the stops in order to screw their employees.

[randys1]

27. Vicious racists they are, how funny they are...but I am not laughing

[yeoman6987]

29. They think they are winning

Just wait until the quarterly revenue arrives, they won't be laughing then. Although I am not sure what their agenda is because I heard they were going to close down completely if the Supreme Court did not decide on their lawsuit so maybe money isn't necessarily their agenda. Not sure what it is though.

[randys1]

30. If that is true, this makes them the worst FILTH on the planet

i.e.

we were ok with all this before, but now that the BLACK man is FORCING Us to provide it, we refuse

and if we dont get our way, we will show you how racist we really are, we will close down causing tremendous harm to our employees

yep, time for a revolution folks

[yeoman6987]

33. Yep! Spoiled brats who got their way

I feel for their employees because they are seriously stuck and it was designed that way. They pay way more than any other company of "entry level" (I hate using "entry level" but can't think of another name because I know people who have worked for companies for 25 years and would not be considered entry level even though they are unfairly counted as such), but that extra pay comes with a serious cost. They can't really quit because if they do, they will lose at least 50 percent of their salary going to a new company. The company is evil to the core. They actually have snowed the Americans into believing they take care of their employees, but really are controlling them more than any other company in America.

[JDPriestly]

31. If they are making enough money from the stuff they sell to be able to afford a full page

ad in any newspaper anywhere, all of us women who sew, knit, crochet, scrapbook or decorate our classrooms and homes on holidays are paying far too much.

[MoonRiver]

32. They better start praying real hard.

The HL boycott is a very real thing, which may very well destroy those bastards.

[trocar]

34. Who reads newspapers anymore?

[TheMightyFavog]

35. Yesterday's Green Bay Press-Gazette had one of those.

Talk about spiking the fucking ball...