Tag: Hobby Lobby

Is Neil Gorsuch More Conservative Than Scalia?

Constitutional Law Professor Corey Brettschneider warns that Neil Gorsuch may turn out to be more conservative than Antonin Scalia. Professor Brettschneider is author of “When The State Speaks.”
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Corey Brettschneider is professor of political science at Brown University, where he teaches courses in constitutional law and political theory. He is currently also a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Brettschneider was a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, a Rockefeller faculty fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, a visiting associate professor at Harvard Law School, and a faculty fellow at Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics. Brettschneider received a PhD in politics from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford University. He is the author of When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government (Princeton University Press, 2007). These books have been the subject of several journal symposia, including one most recently published in the Brooklyn Law Review. Brettschneider is also the author of a casebook, Constitutional Law and American Democracy: Cases and Readings (Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2011). His articles include “Sovereign and State: A Democratic Theory of Sovereign Immunity,” forthcoming in Texas Law Review; “Value Democracy as the Basis for Viewpoint Neutrality,” in Northwestern Law Review (2013); “A Transformative Theory of Religious Freedom,” in Political Theory (2010); “When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? Democratic Persuasion and the Freedom of Expression,” in Perspectives on Politics (2010); and “The Politics of the Personal: A Liberal Approach,” in the American Political Science Review (2007).

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Hobby Lobby Invests $73 Million in Abortion Drug Manufacturers

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The Green family’s religious beliefs are more of a weekend hobby.

Apparently Hobby Lobby doesn’t allow its religious beliefs to interfere with an insatiable thirst for more money. Mother Jones in April of 2014 reveals corporations are not only human, they’re often self righteous charlatans who have no problem making money off the very medical procedures and products they deny their own employees.

Molly Reddin authored the investigative piece examining Hobby Lobby’s $73 million holdings in mutual funds that invest in companies that not only manufacture contraception but the very same abortion inducing drugs used by Planned Parenthood.

Reddin poured over Hobby Lobby’s 401K for employees filed with the Department of Labor in 2012. Reddin writes.

Several of the mutual funds in Hobby Lobby’s retirement plan have stock holdings in companies that manufacture the specific drugs and devices that the Green family, which owns Hobby Lobby, is fighting to keep out of Hobby Lobby’s health care policies: the emergency contraceptive pills Plan B and Ella, and copper and hormonal intrauterine devices.

Reddin says Hobby Lobby’s investments are also in pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Forest Laboratories that earn millions off drugs used by doctors to induce abortions. She writes that Hobby Lobby also has holdings in healthcare giants like Aetna and Humana which offer insurance plans that include surgical abortion, contraception as well as the Morning After Pill also known as Plan B.

I guess the Green family’s religious beliefs are more of a weekend hobby.

Read the rest of the article from Mother Jones here.

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Busted! Hobby Lobby Doesn’t Offer Paid Maternity Leave

David Green who owns Hobby Lobby is worth more than $5 billion.

David Green who owns Hobby Lobby is worth more than $5 billion.

The Supreme Court is about to hand down a ruling on whether the privately owned “Christian” company Hobby Lobby can be exempt from the Obamacare mandate that employers must provide contraception to their employees. Hobby Lobby lawyers say providing contraception to employees goes against the company’s deeply held religious beliefs.

So, we wondered if Hobby Lobby’s deeply held religious beliefs also included providing paid maternity leave to its employees. After all, if you want your workers pregnant, certainly you’d be willing to join the rest of the industrialized world by paying for the mother’s eight or so weeks with her newborn. Certainly Hobby Lobby CEO and founder David Green whose net worth is north of $5 billion could afford to offer paid maternity leave.

Alas, Mr. Green’s Hobby Lobby doesn’t want to pay for maternity leave either. Here’s what we found from an anonymous Hobby Lobby employee who wrote four years ago…

Why does such a successful business not provide BETTER maternity leave for their employees than just the FMLA? I’ve been with this company for almost 8 years and work myself to the bone and take good pride in my job, but yet I’ll have to take my vacation that I have worked so hard for and my PTO time off in order to still be able to get paid when I do take maternity leave.
If all I took was just the FMLA I would lose my house and my bills wouldn’t get paid. If I were rich the FMLA wouldn’t bother me a bit, but I’m not and it does. I just feel that such a “Christian company” would look after their faithful employee’s alot better. I don’t feel that I’m asking for much, but some payment for maternity leave is better than nothing if it means that it will keep food on the table. Thank you for your time.

David Green should purchase this book to learn about where he’ll be spending eternity.


The FMLA she is referring to is the 1993 Family Medical Leave Act which only requires employers to provide unpaid leave for medical and family reasons. During this week’s Working Families Summit, President Obama drew attention to our nation’s dismal record on providing for newborns and their mothers by telling his audience…

“There is only one developed country in the world that does not offer paid maternity leave, and that is us… And that is not the list you want to be on — on your lonesome. It’s time to change that.”

The Supreme Court will rule on Hobby Lobby any moment now. Corporations we are told are people, so we’d like to think a company WHO calls itself Christian would behave like a good Christian. A good Christian would worry about the health of a mother and her newborn by providing maternity leave.

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