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Related: About this forum100 Religious Leaders to Obama: No Religious Exemption in ENDA Executive Order
One hundred religious leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and interfaith organizations have signed a letter to President Obama, asking that he not include a religious exemption in a forthcoming executive order barring hiring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by federal contractors.
http://religiondispatches.org/100-religious-leaders-to-obama-no-religious-exemption-in-enda-executive-order/
http://religiondispatches.org/100-religious-leaders-to-obama-no-religious-exemption-in-enda-executive-order/
The whole letter, including a list of the signers, can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8wzzpbviygds1pv/Faith%20Letter%20to%20President%20Defending%20Exec%20Order%202014-07-08%20FINAL.pdf
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100 Religious Leaders to Obama: No Religious Exemption in ENDA Executive Order (Original Post)
Htom Sirveaux
Jul 2014
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. This man gets the big picture:
Last week the Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance and one of the signers of todays letter, said, The tenet that religion should never be legitimated as a license to discriminate remains our core belief; that federal money must never be used to fund such discrimination must remain the bedrock of religious freedom in America.
If government favors a religion, it ends religious freedom. EOM.
If government favors a religion, it ends religious freedom. EOM.
LuvNewcastle
(16,856 posts)2. Too bad they aren't from the religions that matter.
You know, Evangelicals and Roman Catholics. The 'real' religions. They're allowed to discriminate. Those liberal religious denominations don't count.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)3. That's great -- I think he needs the support. There ARE liberal religious denominations out there...
...and they are not any happier than we are that the crazies have taken over the public square.