Religious Leaders Ask The President To Exempt Religious Groups From Order Barring LGBT Bias In Hiring
by: Les Carpenter
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As fundamentalist religious leaders continue to press their discriminatory and bigoted agenda in the halls of our government. Unless this nation puts a stop to BS of this nature it will be harder and harder to tell the difference between us and the fundamentalism we see in Islamic regimes in the Middle East.
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Rational Nation USA
Purveyor of Truth
As fundamentalist religious leaders continue to press their discriminatory and bigoted agenda in the halls of our government. Unless this nation puts a stop to BS of this nature it will be harder and harder to tell the difference between us and the fundamentalism we see in Islamic regimes in the Middle East.
Fourteen prominent faith leaders — including some of President Obama’s closest advisers — want the White House to create a religious exemption from his planned executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against gays and lesbians in hiring.
A letter to the White House, sent Tuesday and made public Wednesday, includes the signatures of Michael Wear, faith director for Obama’s 2012 campaign; Stephen Schneck, a leader of Catholic outreach in 2012; and Florida megapastor Joel Hunter, whom Obama has described as a close spiritual counselor.
The letter reminds Obama of his own earlier faith-based opposition to same-sex marriage, as well as the government’s massive partnerships with faith-based social service groups that work on issues including housing, disaster relief and hunger.
“While the nation has undergone incredible social and legal change over the last decade, we still live in a nation with different beliefs about sexuality. We must find a way to respect diversity of opinion,” said the letter.
“An executive order that does not include a religious exemption will significantly and substantively hamper the work of some religious organizations that are best equipped to serve in common purpose with the federal government.,” it said. “When the capacity of religious organizations is limited, the common good suffers.”
Obama announced last month that he would sign an executive order barring discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. He did this after failed efforts to get through Congress the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would make it illegal under federal law to discriminate in the workplace — not just for contractors.
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Totally against this. I would ban discrimination based on anything other than a person's ability to do the job. The right will hate me for not wanting any anti-gay discrimination. The left will hate me for not wanting anyone refused employment due to whether or not they are in a union.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, as loathsome, doltish, and retrograde as the religious right clearly CAN be, I just can't ever envision any of these folks a) blowing up a giant statue of the Buddha, b) advocating that a homosexual or an adulteress be murdered, or c) taking out a bounty on anybody who has ever insulted them or their religion (as they plainly did with Salmon Rushdie and that poor bastard who did the Danish cartoon). I think that we can still tell the difference, Les.
ReplyDeleteI have not much to say except that it appears we are in complete agreement, RN. Although, in regards to taking out bounties on people, as I recall there was a website that called for the death of "Tiller the baby killer". And someone did execute him. And I believe that group is a part of the far Right that believes itself to be superior in it's religiosity. Insomuch as you can blame everyone who practices a particular religion for the actions of a few... as it seems some wish to do in regards to peaceful Muslims.
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