Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Obama Can't Tell Churches Who to Hire

Another victory for religious liberty:
The Obama administration unsuccessfully argued that the government can dictate who churches hire, as long as it also subjects secular employers to the same dictates regarding who they hire (so-called rules of general applicability). Taken to its logical conclusion, this argument would allow the government to ban a church or synagogue from hiring based on religion (defeating the whole purpose of religious freedom, which is to allow churches to promote their own religion) or sex (preventing the Catholic Church from having a male priesthood).
I thought the Pres was supposed to be some kind of constitutional scholar, or something.  Apparently, that doesn't mean what Obama worshipers think it means.

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