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Hobby Lobby Finds a Way to Delay Contraception Mandate Requirement

Jan. 11, 2013 6:45pm
Hobby Lobby Finds a Way to Delay Contraception Mandate Requirement for Months

FILE – In this Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, a woman walks from a Hobby Lobby Inc., store in Little Rock, Ark. Christian pastors plan to deliver petitions to Hobby Lobby officials in protest of the Oklahoma-based company s lawsuit challenging health care guidelines that require the coverage of the morning-after pill. Credit: AP

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An attorney for Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby says the company has found a way to delay providing insurance coverage for emergency contraceptives as required under the federal health care law.

Peter Dobelbower said in a statement Thursday that the company will shift the plan year for employee health insurance that will delay by several months the Jan. 1 effective date of the requirement.

Hobby Lobby did not return phone calls seeking further comment.

Hobby Lobby sued to overturn the mandate on grounds that it violates the religious beliefs of founder and CEO David Green and his family. The Greens say requiring insurance for what is known as “morning-after” and “week-after” pills forces them to either violate their religious beliefs or face hefty fines.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied the companies’ request for an injunction while the lawsuit is pending.

 

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  • conserv4ever
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 2:21pm

    Hobby Lobby has become my favorite store to shop.

    I own a small business and because of all these new taxes and mandates, I’m afraid i will need to lay off 2 workers by the end of the month. Well just so happens that I know for sure that 2 out of my 10 employees voted for obama, guess whos getting canned?

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on January 13, 2013 at 12:01am

      If I had a business that is who I would let go first.. lol.. tell them they can live off HOPE and CHANGE now..

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      independentvoteril  
    • Playmakin
      Posted on January 13, 2013 at 11:24pm

      You’ve got my full support…lay them off!!! I think the saying is “elections have consequences.”

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      Playmakin  
  • hi
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 1:22pm

    This SHOULD overturn Obamatax. No one should be forced to pay for snuffing out life.

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    hi  
    • RecoveringRepublican
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:59pm

      The best way to ensure the demise of the Democratic Future is to have more abortions. Democrats have 4 of every 5 abortions (actually it’s 83%) but who’s counting? It’s a Democrat.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 12:37pm

    Personally, I would just tell the elected public servants in Washington to kiss my azz & I will not comply. Let whores buy their own contrceptives.

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    jessieH  
  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:09am

    We revolted against the King of England for less than what this tyrant is forcing on us. The difference between now and then is the opposition leadership, they had balls back then.

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    Gonzo  
  • Free2speakRN
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 5:43am

    Freedom of Religion, the most important freedom. A persons’ deepest beliefs. Freedom of thought practiced. Depending on your beliefs, it took thousands or millions of years to get the Bill of Rights. Freedom of Religion is the first line in the first Amendment. Obama took it away with a cool stroke of a pen. That’s Progress.

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    • thekuligs
      Posted on January 12, 2013 at 1:12pm

      They should just start having church services in store–and turn themselves into a religious institution.

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  • sinner-saint
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 5:42am

    what many people FAIL to understand/comprehend is that it is not the job or duty of an employer to provide healthcare insurance to their employees. The only things an employer has to give the employee is wages for the work the employee performs for the employer. Everything else such as vacation, medical/dental/life/accident insurance, retirement pensions/plans, days off, etc. is BENIFITS – NOT RIGHTS OR ENTITLEMENTS. And an employer does not have to give an employee anything else other than wages for the work they perform for the employer.

    OBAMACARE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND ILLEGAL !!!

    As a business owner and employer, I give my employees a 40 hour work week, 2 days a week off (Saturday and Sunday), two weeks unpaid vacation, no healthcare/life/accident insurance, 5 holiday days w/ no pay, no retirement pension/plan, no education benefits, no stock options or anything else. I pay them for the work they perform and that’s it.

    I keep it sweet and simple.

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    • YellowFin
      Posted on January 12, 2013 at 10:56am

      That is the way I carried out my business for forty years. And I retired in the black, not in the red. Sweet and simple.

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      YellowFin  
    • GCT
      Posted on January 12, 2013 at 3:28pm

      Most people don’t realize that money to give people a paid holiday has to come from somewhere, and it always comes from paying the employees less on the other days. It either comes from the last raise you didn’t get or the next raise that you don’t get.

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      GCT  
    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:32pm

      Goes deeper — bear in mind that under statutory authority, the mother corp runs the commerce –. Obammy knows this (he studied law — it ain’t that tough — just APPEARS convoluted and complex). He knows exactly what he’s doing and what businesses he’s going to allow to prosper, and which ones are ‘targeted’ for dismantling…. regulate them out of existence.

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    • dcgirl
      Posted on January 13, 2013 at 6:52pm

      That is your right to do so as an employer; but I dare say you must have had elevated turnover since you did not value your employees.

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  • Free2speakRN
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 5:38am

    Freedom of Religion, the most important freedom. A persons’ deepest beliefs. Freedom of thought practiced. Depending on your beliefs, it took thousands or millions of years to get the Bill of Rights. Freedom of Religion is the first line in the first Amendment. Obama took it away with a cool stroke of a pen. That’s Progressive.

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  • Chet Hempstead
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 3:44am

    These bums need to pay up and stop trying to chisel their employees out of the health coverage they’re entitled to.

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    Chet Hempstead  
    • emty44
      Posted on January 12, 2013 at 6:25am

      Chet no one is entitled to health benefits, if Hobby Lobby, McDonalds, IBM, or any other company offers benefits that is great. But, those companies do not have to offer them at all.

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      emty44  
    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on January 12, 2013 at 9:13am

      Hey, IDIOT ABROAD! If y’a donna like der benniffits…DONNA WORK DERE!!

      G-WHIZ  
    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on January 12, 2013 at 6:36pm

      emty44
      Yeah, people are entitled to health benefits. It’s part of their pay. The company buys them insurance in order to make up for not paying them enough to buy their own. This benefits everybody, since the employer can get a better price buying dozens of policies than the employees could buying them one at a time. Since it is part of their pay, the employer has no more business trying to dictate what kind of medical services employees can use it to pay for than they would trying to tell them what they can or cannot spend their cash on.

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  • Ch
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 3:04am

    Hobby Lobby, as us to help pay the fine if necessary. The Government is out of control. The trouble is…the people reading this know it. It’s the uninformed that are getting a bigger and bigger footprint.

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    Ch  
  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on January 12, 2013 at 1:18am

    Sotomayor needs to be impeached for denying an injunction. Unconscionable given the magnitude. She is single handedly destroying several Constitutional rights, with extreme prejudice.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on January 12, 2013 at 3:33am

      That’s not how you spell Gandhi.

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    • no1hd
      Posted on January 12, 2013 at 8:51am

      Everytime she or any of them make a decision like this – they lesson the need or importance of the scotus, same for the federal courts.

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    • TeslanEdison
      Posted on February 3, 2013 at 11:09pm

      Sotamayor is a radical she should have never been confirmed, her history is one of extreme racism towards non Hispanics and she is willing to fulfill any agenda regardless of the letter of the law or the constitution. If anyone shouldn’t have a right to stop an injunction this radical shouldn’t, congress didn’t do their homework and totally dropped the ball, but the media sure gave her a pass!

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  • Junter
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 10:52pm

    Way to go Hobby Lobby! I’d stick to my religion over a tyrannical government creating oppressive laws any day.

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    Junter  
  • ILUVPORK
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 8:18pm

    I shopped there today. I love crafting and enjoy shopping there.I do think 1.3 million dollar a day fine is a bit excessive.If I were a successfull business being persecuted by such barbaric measures I would just close shop and retire,just think of all the sales taxes the evil little hobbits couldn’t get their grimey hands on to spend on EVIL.Bullies run in packs and soon they will turn on each other.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:56pm

    @ THE MONK

    It’s easier to (after you post) exit out of the story, then re-load it from the main page. It was indicating that I was logged-out too, but I really wasn’t, because when I re-loaded the story, I also was logged-in.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:45pm

    My goodness. What’s going on with the comment section of the Blaze? “Things” aren’t where they’re supposed to be.

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    Diane TX  
  • BasketFullOfPuppies
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:45pm

    I’m proud to be an Okie from near Muskogee… Go Hobby Lobby!

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:35pm

    ” The Greens say requiring insurance for what is known as “morning-after” and “week-after” pills forces them to either violate their religious beliefs or face hefty fines.”
    …or don’t offer health insurance plans…or don’t believe such ABSURD nonsense…really, there are actually PLENTY of other options they aren’t considering.

    The Third Archon  
    • jcizarter
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:40pm

      Yes, I guess you are right, but why give in to tyranny? Fight it.
      What you are suggesting is to punish your employees by not offering them a health care plan. Then Hobby Lobby looks bad and Obama can blame them for all sorts of things that happen to their employees. That is the Obama tactic: make everyone else look bad, so he can get away with being the worst guy in the room.

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    • mrunner
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:45pm

      It is their business, It should be their choice to offer whatever insurance they want, or none at all. Soon you will be told what you can drive, eat, where you can live and whom you can associate with. Live with your lips attached to obama’s backside and you will continue to see only his backside, not the liberties slipping away. One more BIG reason to protect 2nd Amendment rights…

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      mrunner  
    • missdagnytaggart
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 11:47pm

      I don’t agree with their views on the morning after/week after pills in any way shape or form, but I wholeheartedly support them in their resistance of obamacare

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  • jcizarter
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:34pm

    Someday Valerie Jarrett will stop posting on this site under the name of ENCINOM.
    Her great-grandfather was the first African-American to graduate from MIT. Her grandfather was the first African American to head the Chicago Housing Authority and her father, Dr. James Bowman, a specialist in hematology and pathology, became the first black resident at Chicago’s St. Luke’s Hospital.
    All she can do is be half of Obama’s brain.

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:20pm

    Over a million per day combined with other millions could compile a legal team impassable for God !

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    searching for the Truth  
  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:17pm

    All that money. Could be used to build a legal team that would win over all this with ” unity.”

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    searching for the Truth  
  • Advection
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:16pm

    Democrat fascists rule by tricks, and so everyone must fight back with tricks.

    Good for them.

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    Advection  
  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:02pm

    Test

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    RJJinGadsden  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:08pm

      Hi RJJ,

      It’s working now but I’m having some issues losing my log in when I refresh.

      Have to refresh a few times… sometimes. : (

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      The-Monk  
    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:13pm

      Hi MONK, Yeah, I’m having all sorts of issues still.

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      RJJinGadsden  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:21pm

      Hi RJJ,

      I had about 20 different stories open. Dropping down to 8 or lees to see if that helps.

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      The-Monk  
    • TSUNAMI_22
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:21pm

      The-Monk

      Hi RJJ,

      It’s working now but I’m having some issues losing my log in when I refresh.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      That’s hilarious. I usually feel refreshed after I lose my log. LOL

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      TSUNAMI_22  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:27pm

      Hi RJJ,

      No go on that. Logged out, shut Firefox down, opened back up and have only 5 stories up. I’ll see what happens.

      Hi Tsunami22….. too funny. ” )

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      The-Monk  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:34pm

      Hi RJJ,

      Looks like they still have some bugs to work out. : (

      At least it’s not completely down. : )

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      The-Monk  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 11, 2013 at 7:38pm

      Hi RJJ,

      OK, this sucks. I lost my log on every time I post.

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      The-Monk  
  • CatB
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 6:54pm

    I participated in the Hobby Lobby Day … online … glad to see that they have found a way to delay the penalties while they continue to FIGHT ObamaTAX.

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    CatB  
  • kickagrandma
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 6:54pm

    YES!!!! GOD WILL PROVIDE A WAY. HE PROMISES HE WILL AND HE DOES WHEN WE ARE FAITHFUL TO HIM.

    GOD BLESS and PROTECT HIS KIDS who stand with HIM.
    In JESUS’ PRECIOUS and MIGHTY name, amen.

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  • dylan
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 6:50pm

    God is smiling on Hobby Lobby!

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    dylan  
  • DougHuffman
    Posted on January 11, 2013 at 6:48pm

    BUY-cott Hobby Lobby with money! 19 January is Gun Appreciation Day! Good people must be armed with wits, guns and the Truth.

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