The New York Times is grating its teeth over the prospect that a Christian-owned company is setting up shop in “liberal” Manhattan, as if having a business with religious morals would be a net negative for that God-forsaken city.
“Hobby Lobby Is Opening Its First Manhattan Store. Not Everyone Is Happy,” cried Times reporter Jane Margolies in an April 9 item that was slapped onto the front page of the business section of the April 15 print edition.
Margolies whined that the neighborhood of TriBeCa in Lower Manhattan, “known for its liberal politics and sky-high rents,” was bracing itself for the incoming of a new retailer “known for its conservative Christian convictions.” Oh how terrible. Rather than just reporting on the development, Margolies chose to elevate how “some residents” were supposedly “feeling affronted that Hobby Lobby…
