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It’s Not Just Evangelicals Who Should Worry About World Vision

By Sarah Posner

…hurches, synagogues, and mosques, are exempt from the provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in employment. The reasoning for that exemption is simple: you wouldn’t, of course, require a synagogue to hire a Catholic as a rabbi. Three years ago, World Vision successfully fought off a lawsuit by three former employees, who charged they were let go because they no longer could affirm World Vision’s statement…

Obama Administration Gives Free Pass for Faith-Based Groups to Discriminate

By Sarah Posner

Recent disclosures by the Department of Justice reveal that the Obama administration has continued a policy, first put in place by the Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush Justice Department, of granting faith-based recipients of taxpayer dollars certificates of exemption from federal laws prohibiting religious discrimination in employment by such organizations receiving federal funds. The latest development in a long-simmering standoff between…

Religious Discrimination and the Violence Against Women Act

By Sarah Posner

A coalition of 90 religious, educational, health, women’s, LGBT, and civil rights groups this week called on the Department of Justice to abandon a 2007 Office of Legal Counsel Memo that interprets the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to allow faith-based organizations receiving federal funding to circumvent federal prohibitions on hiring discrimination in employment. A smaller coalition, known as the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (…

More Pressure on Obama to Fix His Religious Freedom Legacy

By Sarah Posner

Today over 130 civil rights, religious liberty, educational, feminist, and LGBT rights groups wrote a letter to President Obama, urging him to instruct the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) to “review and reconsider” a 2007 legal memorandum, which invokes the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act to permit faith-based federal contractors and grantees to circumvent legal prohibitions on discrimination in hiring. The letter is…

Will Anti-LGBT Government Contractors Have A RFRA Claim?

By Sarah Posner

…Church and State, says that the first question is still open. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in employment, religiously affiliated organizations do have an exemption which permits them to hire co-religionists, but for-profit companies are not entitled to such an exemption. However, Lipper pointed out, “what the court has potentially done in Hobby Lobby is open RFRA defenses to organizations [for-profit comp…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ls, Ghosts, Goblins and Halloween Hell Houses Along with the Halloween traditions of carving up pumpkins, kids in costumes, trick-or-treat, scary movies, a candy industry on steroids, and ghouls, ghosts and goblins, comes another, albeit relatively new addition to the day’s activities, courtesy of the religious right; Halloween Hell Houses. Will the religious right take a time out from demonizing Sen. Barack Obama to create Halloween Hell Houses t…

Obama Under Fire From Civil Liberties Groups Over Faith-Based Policies

By Sarah Posner

…ased and Neighborhood Partnerships submitted its recommendations to the administration yesterday, and civil liberties groups are calling for quick implementation of its advice on bolstering constitutional safeguards. The Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (CARD), comprised of 26 religious, civil liberties, and religious freedom organizations, is also demanding action from the administration to fulfill campaign promises on a contentious iss…