Discount craft supply retailer Hobby Lobby has been having a rough time as of late.
Last month, it had to forfeit the illegally acquired Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a 3,500 year-old clay tablet that was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago. The evangelical company purchased the artifact at an auction for $16.7 million and proudly displayed it in the CEO’s personal Museum of the Bible located in Washington, D.C. before being ordered by the court to return it to its rightful owner.
So that was embarrassing.
Then this morning, another embarrassing thing happened. The company has been trending all morning on Twitter after an LGBTQ user named @JayEllisAgain posed the question: “Name a company that you will never support.”
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https://twitter.com/JayEllisAgain/status/1445906692672143360
So far, the tweet has gotten thousands of responses, retweets, and shares, with Hobby Lobby making the top of many people’s lists, along with–surprise!–antigay fast food chain Chick-fil-A…
Hobby lobby and Chick-fil-A ?? https://t.co/sbFPRvG1Fe
— Joe Admiral Funnest Frontier ???? (@DecksLower) October 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/DragonRift/status/1446115982724849678
https://twitter.com/iBolt07/status/1446135083933503490
It’s truly heartwarming to see so many people refusing to do business with corporations that actively work against LGBTQ equality by giving money to antigay hate groups and homophobic politicians and SuperPACs.
This then inspired people to start sharing all the weird sh*t they’ve seen on the shelves at Hobby Lobby.
Check it out…
I would never, ever shop at Hobby Lobby … but … do they sell these anywhere else or are they an edgy Hobby Lobby exclusive? pic.twitter.com/OwRND77srL
— Eugene V. Belitsky ?? (@Jhenya_Belitsky) October 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/AlohaMama818/status/1446107722881982474
Hobby Lobby is unbearably heterosexual pic.twitter.com/TO5USlBzQO
— Linguini from the Gaygency™️ (@pkgayauthor) October 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/punteggio1/status/1446129549746401288
Even if I didn't disagree with their "Christian values," I still wouldn't shop at Hobby Lobby. pic.twitter.com/PTfmG8VuUU
— Jen?? (@JenTusch) October 7, 2021
Went into hobby lobby today. …couldn’t help myself #resist pic.twitter.com/yCQ8FvAGHe
— Debra Gaskill?????? (@DebraGaskill) October 6, 2021
Oh, Hobby Lobby. No. Just no. ? pic.twitter.com/AWdrlA3mco
— KIZER & BENDER (@kizerandbender) September 29, 2021
Hobby Lobby: pic.twitter.com/glPqk0xLrg
— acowan25 (@acowan25) October 7, 2021
When God trolls Hobby Lobby pic.twitter.com/uczsFkNRJC
— Zack Hunt (@ZaackHunt) October 6, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
gregg2010
It’s so difficult to do Gay Scrapbooking without shopping at Hobby Lobby, but I manage . . .
Invader7
@ gregg : take up a new hobby..BOYCOTT all anti-glbtqqiaa+ businesses !!
ThinkPIease
I love Chick-fil-A and they treat their employees great.
SFMike
There are always those that think nothing of supporting their oppressors until it’s to late.
Cam
Chik Fil Et fired a woman when she got pregnant because they said she should be at home with the kids.
But nice try.
barryaksarben
I will never support or go near Hobby Lobby or Chik fila. I once had to shit and asked at a star bucks where there was a bathroom as theirs was closed early during the pandemic and they said Hobby Lobby next door and I told them Id rather shit my pants and they agreed after laughing. I did think about shitting there and smearing it all over the john like the crazy people do but I dont hate the people who work there
ridgelineranger
The local H.L. treats their people like gears in a machine. Every year after inventory, they roll out a program called “Welcome to Hobby Lobby” The employees are expected to crawl on their hands and knees and scrub the plastic edging on all the counters. They are also made to crawl around and repaint the toe kick below the plastic edging. It’s hard to look like a proper sales associate in khakis with dirty knees and green paint dripping off your brush. Other, IMO needless projects include scrubbing every threshold plate at all doors with a wire brush and waxing the exterior of the cardboard bailer. And don’t even get me started on how they jack up and move entire counters with inadequate tools, making for some very dangerous situations. I have never seen another retailer that expected their sales associates to do what should be done by professionals. One district mgr. told all the employees in a meeting, that if they didn’t like the conditions in the store, to go work elsewhere. He finished by saying there were plenty of people that would be glad to have their jobs. Where the store hours are posted, it says something about being closed on sunday so employees have time for family and worship. But let a family member get sick and H L mgmt will tell you real quick you need to be at work. Vile company.
ridgelineranger
As for that chicken place……I was in the food court at the mall and I waited zero seconds to get waited on at the Chinese place. As they were dishing up my food, a woman behind me said “I don’t get the attraction of chik…Just look at that line. There was almost 20 people waiting. I agreed with her, then our server said “Yeah, they will wait in that long line for their “Jesus chicken” We all had a good laugh at that. But seriously, the local churches, primarily Baptists, actually TELL their congregations to eat there because they “do the lords work”.
BoomerMyles
But they can’t eat at a Chick-A-Fil after services because they are closed on Sunday.
That’s the real reason they lose airport concession contracts because they’re closed on the busiest travel day.
How’s an airport supposed to make money on that?
o.codone
The one time I got a sandwich at Chick-fil-A I wasn’t impressed. It was drenched in salt. I almost took it back to the counter. Anyway, I never went back. The drive thru near where I live is JAMMED at lunch time. 20 cars, 30 cars, maybe more. It’s crazy to me that people flip for these sandwiches.
ridgelineranger
@ BoomerMyles They make up for it the other 6 days a week. Lines in the drive thru backed up all the way out into the street blocking traffic and Memphis P.D. having to direct traffic during breakfast and lunch hours. I really resent my tax dollars being used to manage their drive thru.
Terrycloth
I went into our hobby lobby. Once. It used to be KMart..what I needed Walmart didn’t have and this was a Christmas gift I went to hobby lobby. For an anti gay company they sure are blind or desperate for help. I saw so many gay workers cashier’s , stocking shelves ..so damn obvious I nearly laughed out loud..unless it’s like don’t ask don’t tell…but you didn’t need to with these employees .I never went there again. I got what I needed was in there less than 45 minutes ..which was enough.two faced company at least in my town