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Friday, September 11, 2015

Letter asking President Obama to continue protecting religious-staffing rights

A little while back, there was a lot of attention paid to a letter from Americans United for Separation of Church and State and signed by more than 100 other organizations urging the President to abandon his administration's (I think wise) decision to continue allowing religious public-funding recipients to hire for mission.  The letter was poorly reasoned and reflects (as I've discussed elsewhere) an unfortunate but widespread confusion about wrongful discrimination.

Now, Stanley Carlson-Thies of the invaluable Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance -- which has been fighting hard for religious-staffing rights for years -- has sent the President a letter of its own (which I signed).  It's available here: Download Letter to President to maintain OLC memo 9 10 2015 (1).  

Please read it (and share widely).

https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2015/09/letter-asking-president-obama-to-continue-protecting-religious-staffing-rights.html

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