DOJ: Feds Can Tell Church Who Its Ministers Will Be

Townhall ^ | 10/12/2011 | Terry Jeffrey

[battlecry]

Hey, just like the Chinese!

[G Larry]

Well the DOJ can go to hell!

The USSC will never uphold this position!

[Graewoulf]

Remind anyone of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

[chris37]

I think I’m just about ready to move to Russia.

[onedoug]

Can they appoint rabbis and imams too?

[massgopguy]

A “separation of church and state” group wants the government running churches?

[arrogantsob]

I was raised in a mill town in the deep South. For decades it was a Company town and even the housing was owned by the Company until after WWII. Company store, etc.

Company appointed ministers for the churches were commonplace, this is even worse.

[Reagan69]

My dad, a Baptist minister, said this day was coming.

[Reagan69]

My dad, a Baptist minister, said this day was coming.

[WayneS]

Americans United for Separation of Church and State and American Atheists, Inc. have filed briefs siding with the Obama administration against the church.

I suppose the irony of their position, in which they wish to have the government intimately involved in the business of the church, is lost upon them.

In my Thesaurus, 'involve' and 'separate' are antonyms.

[sappy]

US Govt. out of my rectory.

[BenKenobi]

Yep, Barry O’s just salivating over this.

[mojito]

You’re free to believe as the government wants you to believe. Or else.

[sojourner]

This isn’t about religion. It should be about this woman being physically unable to perform her job so the school hired a replacement. If there’s a case there, fine. Why are we dragging the religious element into it?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“In late February, she showed up at the school and met with Principal Hoeft.”

Was she awake for the whole meeting?

[Jack Hammer]

There coudn’t possibly exist a more clear violation of the First Amendment. This will never survive trial by the Supreme Court.

On the other hand, the fact that Obama would even attempt such nonsense is an indication of just how utterly benighted and intrusive this sick - and sickening - administration has become.

[mockingbyrd]

So can I have Rev. Wright’s church?

[Jim Scott]

Americans need to wake up to the insidious erosion of our constitutional freedoms being undertaken by the Obama administration. This case is a shining example of how it happens. Note who is pushing it: atheist organizations. I seriously doubt it will find any favor with the Supreme Court as it attempts to use a weak argument based on a questionable civil rights premise. However, the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v Wade seems unbelievable now but still stands, 38 long years after it's imposition on Americans. That government agencies are a party to the Perich suit validates the proposition that this is an administration working against the concept of religious freedom and doing it through a side door, hoping that few will notice. Well, we notice. This suit must fail.