Posted on 12/05/2014 5:47:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In a unanimous vote earlier this week, the D.C. Council passed legislation repealing “the exemption allowing religiously-affiliated educational institutions to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.” The repealed exemption (2-1402.41) read:
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of the laws of the District of Columbia, it shall not be an unlawful discriminatory practice in the District of Columbia for any educational institution that is affiliated with a religious organization or closely associated with the tenets of a religious organization to deny, restrict, abridge, or condition —
(A) the use of any fund, service, facility, or benefit; or
(B) the granting of any endorsement, approval, or recognition, to any person or persons that are organized for, or engaged in, promoting, encouraging, or condoning any homosexual act, lifestyle, orientation, or belief.
The impact of the repeal is likely to be broad, since the city’s Human Rights Act will prohibit religious schools from acting in accordance with their beliefs regarding sexual morality in decisions related to funding, facilities, campus organizations, benefits, etc. The schools cannot even withhold “endorsement, approval or recognition” of those promoting messages at odds with the religious teachings of the school about appropriate sexual conduct.
While other states have been acting to protect religious liberties, D.C. is trying to narrow the permissible decisions and even speech of religious schools. It is a warning that carefully constructed compromises on anti-discrimination bills are only temporary.
Congress should immediately act to restore this basic, narrow limitation on the power of D.C. to interfere with the teachings and practices of religious schools.
STFU!
Hopefully to new house will crack down on these jokers!
Oh wait! Bone-head won’t let them, crap!
**Congress should immediately act to restore this basic, narrow limitation on the power of D.C. to interfere with the teachings and practices of religious schools.**
Amen!
Go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
You’re dreaming. I have my doubts Congress will even meet anymore. They’ll just spend their time running for re-election and let the Team Obama say what goes.
Madrasahs excepted, of course.
I tell you the truth, the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah will be better off than such a town on the judgment day.
Unconstitutional, I think.
Let the schools disobey it and let DC try to enforce it.
I cannot see this passing constitutional muster, UNLESS a particular religious school accepts any sort of public funding from D.C. If you take the government’s money, you usually have to take the government strings that come with it. And there’s just not a spoon long enough to safely sup with in that case, IMHO.
So yeah, D.C. needs to blow it out of its bunghole here. (That’s probably a protected practice under this new law, LOL).
It’s not “the government’s money,” it’s TAXPAYERS’ money. And Christians are some of the largest taxpayers.
What ever happened to freedom of religion?
We had an election in 2008.
The answer should be a big NO
True, but once it gets into the government’s hands, it’s considered public funding by the courts and what not. And if a religious school were to take it, it could make things a lot tougher legally. Which is why I use the parable of the “long spoon to sup with”. The only safe route for a private religious school is to stay away from government money and its strings entirely.
Forcing of something on another’s conscience is wrong, whether a king does it or whether a city council does it.
If I was a headmaster of a christian school, I would tell DC council to stick it where the sun don’t shine...
Pound sand.
apparently this will be a core cwii reason. left is pushing way too far, on purpose.
they will be pushed back hard.
i believe legally we must fight it going after their presumption any dicrimination is irrational. people discriminate all the time,’about every choice they make. rational reasons justify it. you can’t outlaw discrimination if it’s based on rational reasons and facts and there’s plenty of reasons and facts to be opposed homosexuality.
i say we nuke it from orbit. only way to be sure.
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