Hobby Lobby Appreciation Day: Over 60,000 Flocking to Retailer

By Lillian Kwon , Christian Post Reporter
January 5, 2013|2:49 pm
Over 60,000 people have signed up to shop at Hobby Lobby Saturday in a show of support for the company’s freedom of religion.

While the number of customer commitments fall far below that of last year’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day which had over half a million sign up to buy a chicken sandwich on Aug. 1, Hobby Lobby Appreciation Day has still gained considerable attention and support.

“Today is Hobby Lobby Appreciation Day! Please bring your friends and remind your family across the country to head to Hobby Lobby to show their support for religious freedom and free speech,” wrote former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who was behind the wildly successful Chick-fil-A effort.

The Hobby Lobby campaign is being organized by Joe Grabowski who hopes “the numbers of support on Saturday will at least send a message to the Obama administration and our other elected officials – as well as, hopefully, to the justices on the bench waiting to hear this case,” he told CP earlier.

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