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Good news, workers of Puget Sound! Soon you will have the opportunity to work for a religious corporation that refuses to care about every aspect of your health, because they believe that Jesus thinks genitals are EVIL. Andy Hobbs at the Olympian reports that Hobby Lobby is planning an Olympia store sometime in the near future. And that's on top of the three Hobby Lobbies opening in our neck of the woods this fall. From their website:

Seattle, WA : 13200 Aurora Avenue North : Planned opening day is 10/03/2014.

Tacoma, WA : 3130 S. 23rd Street : Planned opening day is 09/12/2014.

Yakima, WA : 2203 South 1st Street : Planned opening day is 09/12/2014.

That's not counting the six Hobby Lobbies already within one hundred miles of The Stranger's offices. I guess the glitter-glue-and-uterus-hating business must be booming!

So what should you do? Here's a simple list of steps you can take to protest Hobby Lobby:

1. Don't shop at Hobby Lobby.

Seriously. That's all you need to do. Maybe talk to your friends about how you don't shop at Hobby Lobby, if you want bonus points. But please don't go into Hobby Lobbies and re-arrange letters to spell out your protests. You're just making more of a hassle for the poor workers, who already have to put up with a tremendous amount of shit anyway. Don't shop at any of these stores. Be very public about why you're not shopping at those stores. But don't fuck with the very retail employees you're trying to defend, okay?

In other news: Hobby Lobby owners plan to open a Bible Museum in 2017. What a bunch of assholes.