We all heard the news earlier this week about the death of religious freedom at Hobby Lobby.
Even though the public is becoming aware that the owners David and
Barbara Green are Christians, Americans still need to know more about
these good people and what they stand for. To this end, Ben Domenech writes:
The Hobby Lobby folks are a straight-up
American success story. A family business, started in Oklahoma in 1970
with a $600 bank loan, they started by making their frames from wood
bought from local sellers, building them in their garage. The kids glued
them together on the kitchen table in exchange for baseball cards. The
family opened their first frame retail shop in Oklahoma City in 1972.
They had four employees. Now they have 514 stores in 41 states. They
employ 13,240 people full time. In 1981 they added another store to the
family, Mardel, a Christian/church supply shop which sells Bibles and
study books, curriculum, Christian craft supplies. That’s another 35
stores, in 7 states, with 372 employees. So they went from a garage
business started with $600 to two businesses that employ more than
13,600 people full time across basically the entire country. Continue at Denny Burk
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