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Quote by: LA Times Justice Unit Puts Its Focus on Faith
A little-known civil rights office has been busily defending religious groups.
By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — One of the main jobs at the Justice Department is enforcing the nation's civil rights laws. So when a nonprofit group was accused of employment discrimination last year in New York, the department moved swiftly to intervene — but not on the side one might expect.
The Salvation Army was accused in a lawsuit of imposing a new religious litmus test on employees hired with millions of dollars in public funds.
When employees complained that they were being required to embrace Jesus Christ to keep their jobs, the Justice Department's civil rights division took the side of the Salvation Army.
Defending the right of an employer using public funds to discriminate is one of the more provocative steps taken by a little-known arm of the civil rights division and its special counsel for religious discrimination.
The Justice Department's religious-rights unit, established three years ago, has launched a quiet but ambitious effort aimed at rectifying what the Bush administration views as years of illegal discrimination against religious groups and their followers. |
Sounds like Bush only reads the bible and that when he swore to uphold and defend the consitution he was another lying sack of shit Christian.
Starboy
Mar 7, 2005, 01:57 pm
