‘Hypocrisy at its finest’: CNN calls out Hobby Lobby for investing in birth control

[doxydad]

CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday highlighted the “hypocrisy” of Hobby Lobby for investing in companies that made the same birth control products that it refused to provide to female employees.

Earlier this year, Mother Jones revealed that Hobby Lobby’s retirement plan had more than $73 million invested in companies that produced emergency contraception pills. It was that same type of birth control that Hobby Lobby said it had an objection to when it took its case against President Barack Obama’s health care reform law to the Supreme Court and won.

“The critics are calling Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) investments hypocrisy at its finest,” Banfield emphasized on Wednesday, adding that CNN had not gotten an explanation from the company after giving it “plenty of time” to respond.



“I don’t even know where to begin on this one,” the CNN host remarked. “I kept thinking to myself, this had to be an accident. But then I thought, it’s no accident when you are in the middle of the biggest political storm — all the way to the Supreme Court — and, yet, your guys aren’t aware of what your investments are in your very, very large 401(k)?”

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Aw, c'mon, CNN.

Hypocrisy is a universal human trait. Just show me someone who isn't a hypocrite. This is just more proof that corporations are people.

[tanyev]

2. You'd think The Becket Fund would have looked into that when they went plaintiff shopping.

[thucythucy]

3. "The Becket Fund"?

is this, by any chance, a reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered by the henchmen of Henry II? Is that who these conservative religious zealots are modeling in this?

All I know about Becket is from seeing the Peter O'Toole movie, which has a certain timeliness about it. In the movie, the main point of contention between King Henry and Becket is that Becket insists that the Catholic church be allowed to conduct its own criminal trials of priests and Church officials accused of criminal acts. The King says priests, bishops, everybody, must be subject to the same secular authority.

Interestingly enough, if memory serves, the particular priest in question was accused of rape.

"History is the nightmare from which I'm trying to awake."

"There is nothing new under the sun."

[tanyev]

4. Why, yes it is.

They have a little different interpretation of it:

The Becket Fund is named after Thomas à Becket (1118-70 AD), who stood resolutely at the intersection of church and state. As a friend of King Henry II, Becket served as Chancellor of England and oversaw the laws of the kingdom. But as Archbishop of Canterbury, he steadfastly refused to allow the King to interfere in the affairs of the Church and was martyred by the King’s knights for defending the principles of religious liberty. His courage is commemorated in the artwork above, painted in honor of the Becket Fund’s tenth anniversary

http://www.becketfund.org/our-history/