Obama administration tells Supreme Court there should be no “ministerial exception”
The Obama Justice Department argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that churches should not have the right to hire and fire employees who disagree with the doctrines of a particular faith.
Taken to extreme, a Hindu priest could sue a Southern Baptist Convention congregation for refusing to hire him. Atheists could demand to be hired as principals of Christian schools. Women could demand to be accepted as Catholic priests — and men could sue for the right to be nuns.
It appears that the justices were near-united in treating the administration’s surprising and extremist position as, well, surprising and extremist. The consensus, is that at least a majority of the justices will not confirm that a ministerial exception is required by the Constitution
“For a religious institution to thrive, it must be free from government constraint in selecting who will ‘preach its values, teach its message, and interpret its doctrines both to its own membership and to the world at large. Laws against religious discrimination in employment should not permit the government to tell a Presbyterian church, for example, that it must hire a rabbi.”
“When framing the Bill of Rights, James Madison and the other Founders wanted the government to have no power to mandate church policies, So they prohibited Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion, and guaranteed churches and other religious organizations the ‘free exercise of religion.’
One cannot imagine a more obvious feature of an establishment of religion, or a clearer violation of free exercise, than the government dictating to a church that it must rehire a religious teacher, especially a person who has violated church teachings or behavioral codes.
The Obama Justice Department’s position, if victorious, raises the possibility that courts and bureaucrats may, in the name of contemporary norms of fairness, begin requiring religious organizations to hire any number of candidates who do not accept that faith’s tenets.
One could easily imagine future decisions forcing churches, synagogues, or mosques to hire employees who do not adhere to the tradition’s norms of sexual behavior, for example.
This is a huge attack on Americans from the Obama administration! It boils down to the PC issues that runs rampant in our society today. The government is enacting a socialistic agenda aimed at destroying our religions. Our government was formed (in part) to protect the nature of our religious freedoms from liberals, such as the Obama administration, the media as a whole and Democrats in congress who would take those freedoms away. Obama supporters such as George Soros, labor unions, AFLCIO and lawyer lobbies all profit from the turmoil and destruction that as caused by liberal Americans embracement of the PC agenda and our move away from a wholesome relationship with God our father. I define this attack as EVIL!
Evil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. Evil is usually seen as the dualistic opposite of good. Definitions of evil vary along with analysis of its root motive causes, however general actions commonly considered evil include: conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological needs and dignity, destructiveness, and acts of unnecessary and/or indiscriminate violence that are not legitimate acts of self-defense but aggressive and designed to cause ill-being to others.
I believe without a doubt that the President and his administration (Obama Justice Department) are intent on minimizing the Christian faith and thus taking it out as a political voting factor. Without Christians standing up and objecting to a socialistic agenda, there would be no opposition to a total government take over. America would transform into a communist or socialist form of government where the liberals would rule.
Be very careful of the hope and change you wish for, you may just get it!
Now, some facts to give you support;
The link below is a map that gives you the percentage of Christians and all faiths in each state...Click on the following and see the different religions by state and elsewhere by holding cursor over a state.
Now ask yourself, why are we allowing our government and special interest groups (i.e. ACLU and others) to take God out of culture and schools? We need to step up people!!!!!!!!!!! Send this all to all your e-mail friends, make sure they know the issue and what is at stake.
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Engraved into the door!
You would think that someone would see it!
Yes, all on the buildings that your congressmen and women enter every day in Washington.
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Who is attacking freedom of religion?
First Lady Michelle Obama has suggested a Republican victory in the 2012 presidential election would result in curbs on freedom of speech and religion. Their family has no shame!
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