Would You Boycott a Business Because of the Owner's Political Views?

[Ravenshire]

Hobby Lobby has forever changed the societal landscape in using their money to ensure that corporations now have precedent, and have first amendment rights to free speech. This is absolutely atrocious to me. I don't have much use for hobby stores to begin with, but I will go out of my way to go to a Jo-Annes or a Michaels instead.

There's definitely a line. Everyone can't just do whatever they want and call it "freedom of religion," obviously. But I don't think what hobby lobby did crossed that line. There are something like 20ish different types of birth control that insurance will cover. Four of those 20 types of birth control are more notorious for causing abortions. The family who owns hobby lobby is very strongly against abortions and understandably don't want to pay for insurance for those 4 specific types of birth control. But they will pay for the other 16 or so. Also, I heard they pay their employees well above minimum as a starting pay, so it's not like they don't care for or value their employees. 

Anyway, I don't see how that is unreasonable, if that's all they've done. I'm sure I'd probably do the same if I owned my own business. 

With that being said, even if I was pro abortion, I'd still not boycott them for that. As I said, It'd be hard to find a business who didn't do something I was opposed to.

What the Hobby Lobby did was an infringement of their employees rights. Many people, especially those working for minimum wage jobs (the majority of jobs at HL) cannot afford even basic health care. For them to dictate what health care is "acceptable," then refuse to pay is morally reprehensible.

Chick-Fil-A's stance against gays went much farther than just donating to christer charities with multiple public statements condemning them.

We'll have to agree to disagree though, as it seems you see nothing wrong with what either company has done.