Addicting Info – So Much For Hobby Lobby: Wal-Mart Wins Right To Suppress Christian Shareholders (VIDEO)

Back in 2012, the Wal-Mart corporation made CNN’s list of the top 9 “religious companies” in America. According to Lake Lambert III, who wrote the book on the subject of religious corporations, called “Spirituality Inc.,” the Walton family claims that “Christian servant leadership models” were used to build the company from the ground up.

According to the right wing Bible, a corporation’s one and only responsibility is to its shareholders. But what happens when Christian shareholders sue the supposedly “religious corporation” of Wal-Mart, in hopes of swaying the corporation away from decisions which they believe “offend family and community values”?
Wal-Mart fights them all to federal court, and wins.

In February of 2013, a group of 30 law professors joined Trinity church in a suit against the company. The church wanted shareholders to have the right to vote on whether the company should sell products that “might endanger public safety, hurt Wal-Mart’s reputation, or offend “family and community values” which they believe are “integral to Wal-Mart’s brand”.


Wal-Mart responded by claiming that shareholders have no right to participate in such decisions.

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The court’s decision in this case contradicts the Hobby Lobby decision on every level. A corporation, in and of itself, cannot have a ‘sincerely held religious belief’ about anything. A corporation is nothing but a piece of paper. The ‘sincerely held religious beliefs’ of a corporation are defined by the human beings that own it, in other words, a majority of the shareholders.

According to the Trinity v Wal-Mart decision, however, the religious beliefs of shareholders are of no consequence.

In light of Hobby Lobby, this ruling makes no sense. If shareholders, the actual owners of corporations, don’t have the right to define the religious beliefs of a corporation, who does?

Addicting Info – So Much For Hobby Lobby: Wal-Mart Wins Right To Suppress Christian Shareholders (VIDEO)