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But They Thought It Was Okay Because They are Devout and
Pious
The Hobby Lobby company is famous for wanting to control
their employees private sex lives and for getting Supreme Court decision to allow
them to do so. They also bought a large
number of religious artifacts,
illegally as it turns out.
Prosecutors said in the complaint
that Hobby Lobby, whose evangelical Christian owners have long maintained an
interest in the biblical Middle East, began in 2009 to assemble a collection of
cultural artifacts from the Fertile Crescent .
The company went so far as to send its president and an antiquities consultant
to the United Arab Emirates to inspect a large number of rare cuneiform tablets
— traditional clay slabs with wedge-shaped writing that originated in
Mesopotamia thousands of years ago.
In 2010, as a deal for the tablets was being struck, an expert
on cultural property law who had been hired by Hobby Lobby warned company
executives that the artifacts might have been looted from historical sites in Iraq
And having been caught, they had a ready excuse.
Mr. Green said that Hobby Lobby’s
collection of historical Bibles and artifacts like the tablets was “consistent
with the company’s mission and passion for the Bible.” He added that the
company had planned to display the items it bought in various museums and
public institutions.
As for the smuggling allegations, Mr.
Green said in the statement that Hobby Lobby was “new to the world of acquiring
these items, and did not fully appreciate the complexities of the acquisitions
process.” He added that “regrettable mistakes” were made and that he should
have “exercised more oversight.”
Our Bible says ‘thou shall not steal” but maybe Hobby Lobby
has a Bible that says it’s okay if you are religious. Like it’s okay if you are religious to keep
family planning services away from your
employees just because you the employer don’t believe they are moral.
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