Does a corporation have 1st Amendment religious rights?

[Lemur]

Why shouldn't groups retain the rights of the individuals making it up?

A group composed exclusively of people who associate based on faith does have protection -- it's called a church. It's safe to assume that corporations such as Hobby Lobby employ many people of many faiths, or no faith at all. So it's more a question of whether management's the owners'* faith can constitute a organization-wide right protected by the Constitution.



*Corrected because drone is right and I am a doofus.

[drone]

I am not a corporate lawyer but here's my take:

A group composed exclusively of people who associate based on faith does have protection -- it's called a church. It's safe to assume that corporations such as Hobby Lobby employ many people of many faiths, or no faith at all.

Employees don't count as far as corporate rights go, only shareholders do.

So it's more a question of whether management's faith can constitutes a organization-wide right protected by the Constitution.

The management's faith also does not apply to corporate rights, only shareholders. Management probably holds large percentages of stock, but I would say unless the shareholders are unanimously against birth control they have to comply with the law.

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