Remember when Hobby Lobby took its case against having to pay for contraception in the Affordable Care Act to the U.S. Supreme Court claiming its objections were based on the owners’ strongly held religious beliefs?
It would appear those strongly held religious beliefs are ones of convenience as opposed consistency, and are only applicable if they are applied to other people.
Like those who condemn Gay people while enjoying working on the Sabbath and eating shrimp, it would appear the owners of Hobby Lobby are also a little selective.
The Hobby Lobby family is building a Bible Museum two blocks from the mall in Washington D.C., and it is planned to house the owner’s collection of Bibles, some artifacts loaned by the Israeli government, and what appear to be stolen artifacts from Iraq.
For the past four years the Green family has been under investigation for “the illicit importation of cultural heritage from Iraq”, an investigation that began when a shipment of 200-300 clay tablets was seized by U.S. customs agents in 2011 en route from Israel to Oklahoma City, where the Greens live and where their Hobby Lobby company has its home base.
It’s also the capitol of the state recently in the news because a Federal Court agreed with the ACLU that having a large monument to the 10 Commandments on state property violated the separation of church and state. However, the directive to remove the graven image was delayed as the religiously conservative governor, Attorney General, and assorted legislators claimed that the 10 Commandment are the basis of the laws of the United Sates even though only three of them, murder, stealing, and lying under certain circumstances are in our laws.
The Bible museum’s president, Cary Summers, confirmed that the tablets were seized and they were part of a federal investigation.
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Hobby Lobby CEO Steve Green said his family’s antiquities collection, which includes about 40,000 artifacts, may include items that the family unwittingly acquired through illicit means.
“Is it possible that we have some illicit [artifacts]? That’s possible,” he said.
As far as the museum being in the heart of our secular government, according to Steve Green,
“I think seeing the biblical foundations of our nation — for our legislators to see that, that a lot of that was biblically based, that we have religious freedoms today, which are a biblical concept, it can’t hurt being (two blocks from the National Mall).”
Meanwhile, it would appear that the person most concerned about the Biblical basis of the country simply brushed away that section in the Bible that speaks against stealing.
And, it would appear that the Greens also tip-toe around the Biblical prohibition against lying as the director of the museum and Mr. Green claim there is no investigation, just a slow bureaucracy dragging its feet in clearing their shipment in spite of the tablets which are inscribed in the cuneiform script of Assyria and Babylonia having been labeled as “hand-crafted clay tiles” on their FedEx shipping labels and said to have only a value of about $300 each, neither of which indicates they are part of the cultural heritage of Iraq.
So in spite of the museum being based on the Bible as a means of teaching the world about the importance of it, part of that upon which the claim is based are stolen artifacts from a foreign country that not only was unaware that they were stolen, but may not want their cultural history taken from them.
But, hey, its about religion, so a violation of religion is okay.