Tell Hobby Lobby's Christian CEOProtect your employees from coronavirus

Posted: March 24, 2020

Claiming that God spoke to his wife, CEO David Green has announced that Hobby Lobby stores will stay open in spite of the threat from COVID-19. Apparently God didn't say anything about offering paid sick leave.

Thanks to grassroots pressure, leaders at companies like Kroger, Safeway, and Target have begun to change their policies and offer employees enough paid sick leave for coronavirus treatment. Unfortunately, Hobby Lobby's billionaire CEO is refusing to show the same decency as these other executives, despite his professed Christian values.

Green has arrogantly decreed that Hobby Lobby stores are "essential," and in a letter to employees, he wrote, "we can all rest knowing that God is in control." True -- but part of God's control is to let Green run his own chain.

As a Christian CEO, the least Green can do is close his stores where legally required to do so, and use some of his $6.4 billion to give employees paid sick leave during the pandemic.

Sign the petition:

As your fellow Christians, we call on you to address the coronavirus pandemic by closing your stores where legally required to do so, continuing to pay employees at those stores, and providing at least 14 days of paid sick leave to all your employees. While we agree with you that "we serve a God who will guide us through this storm," we believe that part of Scripture's guidance is to use your company's good fortune to provide employees with the protections they need. (cf Ezekiel 34:3-4, Matthew 25:36, Luke 18:22, 1 Timothy 5:18, 1 John 3:17)

It is true, as you write, that "we can all rest knowing that God is in control," but God has put you in control of your employee benefits. Follow Jesus' teachings to love your workers as yourself by providing them with paid sick leave and wages while also closing stores as required, or stop making the public claim that your company is guided by Christian values.

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