Hobby Lobby Green Family

The Green family, who are evangelical Christians, own the Hobby Lobby store chain, which has more than 15,000 full-time employees in more than 600 crafts stores in 41 states.

(Associated Press/Hobby Lobby)

OKLAHOMA CITY —

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does not have to provide all forms of birth control is a victory for one of the nation's most prominent Pentecostal Christian families.

Hobby Lobby's owners, the Green family of Oklahoma, plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create a Bible museum on land near the National Mall in Washington. It's scheduled to open in 2017 and will display the family's massive collection of biblical artifacts, including ancient texts.

Hobby Lobby President Steve Green is also spearheading the Green Scholars Initiative, which intends to place a Bible-based academic curriculum in the nation's public schools.

His brother, Mart Green, spent about $70 million of the family fortune to rescue Oral Roberts University, the Pentecostal school in Oklahoma that was engulfed in a spending scandal and burdened with tens of millions of dollars in debt.