{"id":18967,"date":"2014-03-19T15:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=18967"},"modified":"2014-03-19T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T19:35:31","slug":"the-god-problem-the-salvation-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=18967","title":{"rendered":"The god problem: the “Salvation Army”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never give money to any organization allied to any religion. Any religion. Never.<\/p>\n

I was, therefore, pleased to see this news, by Sharon Otterman of the New York Times, about the settlement of a lawsuit against the Salvation Army.<\/a> (What do they salvate? And why is it an army? Rhetorical questions.) But entirely displeased to see what the lawsuit was about. Man, are these “holy” people ugly customers:<\/p>\n

The Salvation Army on Tuesday settled a decade-old lawsuit that charged it with engaging in religious discrimination by requiring its government-funded social service employees to reveal their beliefs and to agree to act in accordance with the Christian gospel.<\/em><\/p>\n

As part of the settlement, approved by a federal judge in Manhattan, the Salvation Army<\/a> will distribute to its New York employees who work in programs that receive government financing a document stating that they need not adhere to the group\u2019s religious principles while doing their jobs, nor may they be asked about their religious beliefs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Somehow I believe this relates to the various lawsuits by profit-making companies<\/a> who proclaim their tender religious beliefs as justification to deny insurance providing contraception to employes who want it. But I don’t have the time today to work out the parallels.<\/p>\n

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