I knew this day was coming: Churches will face lawsuits.

[Hessian]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42502

Remember our huge debate 3 years ago over the Md Gay law? Remember that I wrote that this is just part of the incremental agenda? People were soothingly reassured that churches were exempt from the law...well:
Here we go: An Illinois Governor starts quoting "scripture" and orders that Churches cannot discriminate against hiring gays (to the cheers of 150 rabid activists.)
So: how long before that gets proposed in Md?
Next on the agenda? Severe fines & re-education "Tolerance courses" for parishioners and the loss of tax-exempt status.

Maybe another three years.

Why can't people see where this is going?

 

[Vince]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42502
Here we go: An Illinois Governor starts quoting "scripture" and orders that Churches cannot discriminate against hiring gays (to the cheers of 150 rabid activists.)

Don't think it'll fly. They'll make a big stink about it and get alot of publicity, but as far as hiring gays? I don't think it will ever happen.

 

[FromTexas]

Don't think it'll fly. They'll make a big stink about it and get alot of publicity, but as far as hiring gays? I don't think it will ever happen.

Supreme Court has long upheld that private non-profit mission oriented organizations are not required to hire people who don't fit their mission.

Christian run/paid for hospitals don't have to hire non-Christians, etc... As long as they do not receive any federal funding. However, say your local church gets some federal funds for faith based initiatives... then, you are obligated to follow federal hiring laws.

If the church does not receive government aid, then they can do as they please in hiring practices.

 

[Bruzilla]

Like Hessian said, it's not about hiring Gays. This is just another stepping stone on the road to legitimizing the gay lifestyle. Gays will never view themselves as being legitimate until the churches approve of them. They've gotten most of the public, via the media, to accept them; and they've gotten government to accept them. Their hard charge for legalizing Gay marriages would have enabled them to sue churches for not allowing them to marry, but it looks like since they've lost the marriage gambit that they're taking another road to force the churches to recognize them.

While I don't endorse or accept any organized religion, I think it's about the time that the churches sent a big "F Thou!" to the courts and to the government, and say you can't have a seperation of church and state that only goes one way. If the church must be excluded from all things government, then the government must be excluded from all things church.

 

[Lenny]

". . . you can't have a seperation of church and state that only goes one way. If the church must be excluded from all things government, then the government must be excluded from all things church."

But I won't hold my breath that the liberals won't continue floating these hair-brained suits and laws.