In 2017, federal prosecutors found that Hobby Lobby illegally smuggled rare and stolen artifacts to the US by shipping the items to its Oklahoma City headquarters in boxes labeled as ceramic tile samples. John Russell, an expert on Iraqi antiquities, looks at cuneiform tablets smuggled into the US by the Green family. We took a closer look at Hobby Lobby's scandals over the years, including accusations of discrimination, illegally smuggling artifacts, and endangering employees during the coronavirus pandemic. In its most prominent incident, Hobby Lobby faced scrutiny for its battle against paying for insurance coverage of contraceptives for employees, culminating in a high-profile and divisive Supreme Court case. Over the years, Green and his evangelical leanings served as the catalyst for a number of disputes, including claims of anti-Semitism, homophobia, and evangelizing in public schools. Hobby Lobby has made a public commitment on its website to "honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles." Unlike most retail executives, who have a separation of church and state, Green regularly references God in company memos. Since Green first founded Hobby Lobby in Oklahoma in 1972, the billionaire businessman has drawn ire for imbuing his religious beliefs into the company and its 900 stores. Like Chouinard said, "Instead of 'going public,' you could say we're 'going purpose.'" It gives me a bigger purpose than just making money. He continued: "Best of all, when I made the decision to give away my ownership, similar to Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard, it allowed us to sustain our mission and purpose.
We've been able to provide hope through supporting ministries and planting churches all over the world." As we were blessed by God, we saw it as a great privilege to give back. "We worked hard and God gave the results. "From the very beginning our purpose was to honor God in all that we did," he wrote. While the Hobby Lobby CEO and founder does not appear to actually be relinquishing ownership of his craft store company, Green wrote in an op-ed on Fox News on Friday that his efforts to "honor God" in operating the chain are similar to those of Chouinard, who recently announced Patagonia will now be owned by a trust and nonprofit fighting the climate crisis. David Green is comparing himself to Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, claiming he also decided to "give away" his company - not in the name of climate change efforts, but rather to God.
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