MASON CITY – A local retailer in Mason City continues to be a part of a national controversy involving Obamacare and whether the Federal government has the authority under the constitution to force a business to participate in a program that the business owners claim violates their religious principles.
Today is “Standing with Hobby Lobby Day” and it is being observed across the country.
According to a Facebook page dedicated to the event, “On Saturday, January 5th, all Americans who value freedom of religion and oppose the HHS Mandate’s unfair impositions upon religious individuals and corporate entities are called upon to show their support for Hobby Lobby by shopping either at their local retail Hobby Lobby store or online.”
The Mason City Hobby Lobby store is located at 2566 4th Street Southwest.
According to Store Manager Lance Nath, he has received on-going updates on the status of a lawsuit filed by Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green, and is well aware of today’s event.
“We are already busy,” said Mr. Nath. “Whether we do 10% more or 15% more today, I don’t know. I think (the event) will be a good thing.”
According to Mr. Green, Obamacare will have negative affect on his business and violate his religious principles.
“A new government health care mandate says that our family business MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance,” Mr. Green recently stated. “Being Christians, we don’t pay for drugs that might cause abortions, which means that we don’t cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company since day one. If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in government fines.”
According to news reports, A federal judge dismissed on Friday a lawsuit the University of Notre Dame had filed against the HHS mandate compelling religious groups and businesses to pay for drugs for their employees that may cause abortions.
My favorite thing about the ACA, or obamacare as our media has labelled it, is that it’s almost the exact same plan the republicans were putting forth during the Clinton administration. Now though, because it was passed into law while a democrat, who happens to be half black, holds the office of the President, the right wing hate mongers want to try and portray it as the most evil thing since Nazi Germany. Hypocrits much? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news for the conservatives, but the days of old white men ruling the roost is over. Support for your party among the youth and minorities of our great nation is next to nill, with the only ones buying into your propaganda being the uneducated, bigoted and hateful. Thank God they aren’t the majority.
I’m sorry, but why does hobby lobby think that they are above the law. The Affordable Health Care Act has already passed the scrutiny of the Supreme Court, so live with it. It is not a perfect law, none of them are, but it is a first step in trying to control health care costs. If hobby lobby is so stupid as to cut their nose off to spite their face by shutting their doors, let them. I’m sure not going to darken their doorstep again.
This is what people get for putting a not american back in the White House to run our American country. All he has done since he got in there is stir up trouble and has our country fighting against each other, and his wife wanting to starve our children. Just wait until this next term is over we will be behind fences looking out at musselums running our country, and our food being rashined to us if they feel we are worth let liiving. What are people going to do that can’t afford insurance ? I work hard to have it and pay for it know but will I ever be able to retire ?