The Green Family is a religious family that follows the christian faith. In their business, they have incorporated their faith into their business, the Hobby Lobby Stores. This chain has over five hundred stores and over thirteen thousand employees. Hobby Lobby was not a non profit organization, but they were a religious based organization. Because of the Affordable Health Act, they were forced to cover contraceptives for their employees until 2012 when it filed a lawsuit against Kathleen Sebelius. The Greens felt that their first amendment rights were being violated because they were a religious based organization that followed the christian path in their business and them being forced to pay for birth control pills was against their religion. Though, there were systems in place to allow non profit religious based organizations be exempt from paying for contraceptives, Hobby Lobby was a profit religious based …show more content…
Their lawsuit was against the contraception rule based on the RFRA and the First Amendment. THeir case was denied on November of 2012 as District Judge Joe L. Heaton denied Hobby Lobby's request for a preliminary injunction. However In March 2013, the United States Court of Appeals granted the Greens a hearing of their case and in June the appeals court ruled that Hobby Lobby Stores is a person with religious freedom. Because of their victory, the court ordered the government to stop enforcement of the contraception rule on Hobby Lobby Stores and sent the case back to the district court, which granted preliminary injunction in July. On November 26, 2013, the Supreme Court accepted the