Discrimination at World Relief: Your tax dollars at work
Bigotry At World Relief: Publicly Funded Evangelical Charity Won’t Hire Non-Christians
The decision to discriminate against qualified job applicants on the basis of religion is blatantly biased and directly challenges the Obama administration to act.
“If you get a federal grant, you can’t use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help and you can’t discriminate against them – or against the people you hire – on the basis of their religion,” explained then presidential-hopeful Barack Obama while discussing his proposed changes to the controversial “faith-based” initiative on the campaign trail in Ohio in 2008.
In the two years that have passed since his first national address about federal funding for religious social services, Obama’s inaction has been deeply disappointing. The misguided policies of the Bush era remain in place, and the president has yet to curb publicly subsidized religious discrimination.
Well, now’s his chance to make right.</em>
We’ll see about that. I ain’t holding my breath that President Obama recalls much of what Candidate Obama spewed.
