As reported by the Daily Beast yesterday, the Green’s, owners of America’s most famous Christian businesses “Hobby Lobby”, which became famous last year for winning a landmark Supreme Court case on religious freedom and government mandates, are now themselves being investigated for receiving illicit artifacts for their Washington DC Museum of the Bible that was due to open in 2017.
The Daily Beast article noted that the greens had already covered themselves with plausible deniability in a statement made to another publication.
“Steve Green, the CEO of Hobby Lobby, admitted that among his family’s extensive collection they might have some illegally-acquired antiquities, though he denied having ever knowingly done anything wrong. “Is it possible that we have some illicit [artifacts]? That’s possible,” he told us for a story slated to appear in a forthcoming issue of The Atlantic.”
Apparently, it seems that the Righteous Right can use the ten commandments like a buffet, picking and choosing the ones they want to obey. I seem to remember one about stealing or something to that effect.
As it turns out the Greens are the equivalent of a modern-day Indiana Jones who have been under investigation for the last four years for snatching and illicitly importing Iraq’s cultural heritage, though not from Nazis this time around.
“These tablets, like the other 40,000 or so ancient artifacts owned by the Green family, were destined for the Museum of the Bible, the giant new museum funded by the Greens, slated to open in Washington, D.C., in 2017. Both the seizure of the cuneiform tablets and the subsequent federal investigation were confirmed to us by Cary Summers, the president of the Museum of the Bible.”
But we should give them a break anybody can make a mistake. Nobody is perfect, The last guy that was perfect, well we all know what happened to him.