Hobby Lobby is America's largest privately-held arts and crafts retailer, founded by David Green in 1972. It is one of the most publicly Christian major retailers in America, known for closing on Sundays, playing Christian music, displaying Christian messages, and fighting all the way to the Supreme Court to maintain religious freedom in healthcare coverage.
Hobby Lobby's corporate statement of purpose reads: "Honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles." This isn't aspirational language — it governs daily operations. All Hobby Lobby stores close on Sundays. The stores play Christian music. Biblical messages are displayed. The company has run full-page newspaper ads on major holidays with Christian messages about faith.
Founder David Green has been one of America's most outspoken Christian business leaders. His book "Giving It All Away... and Getting It All Back Again" describes his conviction that the company belongs to God and is to be operated as a stewardship. The Green family has given billions to Christian causes, including the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C.
In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores (2014), the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protected Hobby Lobby from being required to include certain contraceptives in employee health insurance that the Green family believed caused abortions. This was a landmark religious freedom case — Hobby Lobby paid significant financial costs to fight it rather than comply. See the Supreme Court ruling.
Hobby Lobby voluntarily raised its minimum wage well above the federal minimum — currently $18.50/hour — years before political pressure to do so, citing biblical obligations to workers.
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