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Hobby Lobby has a right to operate freely as a private business
Not surprisingly, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Ann Lynch has a problem with Hobby Lobby’s business practices. She penned a letter to the editor that was published on Tuesday, June 25, doing her best to turn the public against the retailer which just located to an area town. Her beef is with them being closed on Sundays and health insurance coverage policies.
I don’t know if she misunderstands the American concepts of religious liberty and private business ownership, or if it’s an activist mindset which makes the letter so disconnected.
She tries to frame her issues with Hobby Lobby as one trying to protect victims. Hobby Lobby’s employees aren’t victims of their employer.
An employer is not obligated to violate their conscience for the happiness or comfort of their employees. Hobby Lobby and any other businesses recruit workers by offering a combination of wages and benefits. These are made known prior to the interviewee saying, “I’ll take the job.” If Hobby Lobby doesn’t want to pay for abortion inducing drugs or birth control pills (which can be obtained at the Target pharmacy in North Haven for $9 per month with no health insurance) then that was a condition of employment. If they aren’t required to provide health insurance at all, how can you assert what must be covered if they freely choose to offer it in the first place? Moreover, it never ceases to amaze me when people -- usually well to do people -- complain about the wages of entry level, low skill jobs (no advanced education or specialized skill required) as if these jobs are supposed to pay more than they do. These jobs are not intended to support families with their wages even if people use them as primary employment. They are supplemental income and stepping stone jobs, not careers. It should be expected that one would eventually move on or move up to a higher paying job.
Nothing productive comes from demonizing a business which employs so many people in an economy where the number of people without work is at an all-time high.
John Barron Jr.
Branford
I don’t know if she misunderstands the American concepts of religious liberty and private business ownership, or if it’s an activist mindset which makes the letter so disconnected.
She tries to frame her issues with Hobby Lobby as one trying to protect victims. Hobby Lobby’s employees aren’t victims of their employer.
An employer is not obligated to violate their conscience for the happiness or comfort of their employees. Hobby Lobby and any other businesses recruit workers by offering a combination of wages and benefits. These are made known prior to the interviewee saying, “I’ll take the job.” If Hobby Lobby doesn’t want to pay for abortion inducing drugs or birth control pills (which can be obtained at the Target pharmacy in North Haven for $9 per month with no health insurance) then that was a condition of employment. If they aren’t required to provide health insurance at all, how can you assert what must be covered if they freely choose to offer it in the first place? Moreover, it never ceases to amaze me when people -- usually well to do people -- complain about the wages of entry level, low skill jobs (no advanced education or specialized skill required) as if these jobs are supposed to pay more than they do. These jobs are not intended to support families with their wages even if people use them as primary employment. They are supplemental income and stepping stone jobs, not careers. It should be expected that one would eventually move on or move up to a higher paying job.
Nothing productive comes from demonizing a business which employs so many people in an economy where the number of people without work is at an all-time high.
John Barron Jr.
Branford
posted by Matt DeRienzo at
3:35 PM
4 Comments:
amen to that...oops, I hope I didn't offend. I have stated before that if these jobs are meant to be careers, then there should be college courses to teach people how to say "do you want fries with that" and make change.
What happens when Muslims want Sharia law respected? Who's that I hear, Christians protesting? Christianity must be respected but not Islam. Gosh golly. Can you say, "Double standard?"
Bravo. Well said. That woman from NOW has obviously been brainwashed to mouth the leftist mindset that sees no one as having any individual freedom at all in this country. She's a zombie.
Hobby Lobby's business practices are all over Facebook. The public is aware and talking. It's simply not a business that matches the mindset of the Northeast and I suspect it's mark on East Haven will be short lived. Perhaps a Chick-fil-A could take the spot next...oh wait...
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