Hobby Lobby president urges Christians to stand strong against feds
The president of Hobby Lobby — the business at the heart of the Supreme Court case that solidified the rights of for-profit ventures to deny abortifacient coverage in employee insurance plans — said Christians need to stand strong for religious freedoms.
Steve Green made the appeal in a video shown during Star Spangled Sunday, a conservative gathering at First Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, Raw Story reported.
“The bottom line is we believe that life begins at conception and for us to be a part of taking that life violates what our deeply held beliefs are, and so we just said we didn’t want to freely provide those [or to] pay for them for employees,” Mr. Green said in the video. “That’s doesn’t prevent them from having access to them, but for the government to tell us that we had to provide those to our employees for free was a problem for us and why we decided we had to file suit.”...