The Ink-Wire’s headline-writing copy editor Gets It:
Religious Bias Gets OK in State Job AdsA Christian college in Western Pennsylvania and a faith-based coalition can use a state-sponsored job site specifically to hire Christians, according to the settlement of a religious discrimination suit.
Attorneys for Geneva College in Beaver Falls and the Association of Faith-Based Organizations, a coalition in Springfield, Va., filed the federal suit over Pennsylvania’s online CareerLink job-listing site in December. The state and federal governments were named as defendants.The plaintiffs argued they were wrongly denied use of the employment service, which includes an Internet service called CareerLink. The service has a nondiscrimination policy barring job postings that require applicants to have particular religious backgrounds.
Just change every instance of the word “religious” or “faith” to “race”, all instances of “Christian” or “Christianity” to “white,” and “belief” to “color.”. Then see how this reads, and how the logic applies
“The right of a religious organization to align itself with individuals of shared belief is as central to that organization’s mission as other viewpoints are to nonreligious organizations,” said Timothy J. Tracy, an attorney for the Christian Legal Society, which filed the suit along with the Alliance Defense Fund.“Religious job requirements can’t be singled out for exclusion from a public job listing simply because they are religious,” Tracey said.
Paging David Duke, Kirk Lyons, and the Ghost of Nathan Bedford Forrest to the white courtesy phone, please.
Somebody please appeal this dammit. Tell these bigots NO, you can discriminate in hiring all you want but NOT on a state-owned, taxpayer-funded website—that would be taxpayers of Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, atheist and agnostic practices and beliefs, since last I heard none of them were allowed to avoid paying PA state income or sales taxes because of their faiths.
At least the headline writers are getting with the program. Raising a weak and feeble cheer for this fact allows me to quit growling quite so hard, as I am scaring the dog.
Front page
But Xan, America is a Christian nation!
So, what’s wrong with spending taxpayer money to advance [cough] Christian goals?
Typical lack of logic from the lunatic left…
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Well it should be unnecessary then!
Since everybody in Pennsylvania is a Christian, what could be the need to spend the money for extra words to specify it in these job ads? It would be like demanding everybody be “a carbon-based lifeform.”
Although on second thought…hmm. I guess it would be discrimination to refuse to hire Dick Cheney, wouldn’t it?
Never mind.
I still await the day—and it can’t be much longer, in fact it’s probably happened already and just escaped notice in the “press”—when they start turning and eating their own.
“But we meant evangelical Christians, just like us, dammit! Why should I have to wade through this stack of resumes from Quakers, and papists and Unitarians even? What’s next” [sound effect, audible sneer in voice, with hint of fear] “Mormons trying to sneak in here?” [snort]
Guess They're Washed In the Blood
Oh, say is that ’Blood on their hands’ I see wielding that court’s gavel? It’s discrimination not to let a ’religious’ organization discriminate? Something bloody wrong there.
Ruth
This is a Christian nation...
… this I know, because the MSM tells me so.
If you’re an American, you are de facto a Christian. So what’s the problem?
www.vastleft.com
I know y'all were being sarcastic, but God Damn It, the problem
is that nobody is saying out loud what “Christian” is code for.
I know you know.
“Christian” doesn’t mean Catholic or Unitarian Universalist or Mormon. Those are “Cults” and “false gods.”
Christian doesn’t mean Spanish-speaking or Chinese-speaking or Amerind-native. Those are “heathen cultists.”
Christian doesn’t mean black. Those are “imitation Christians.”
Christian doesn’t mean Episcopalian or Methodist or Nazarene because those are all just “light Catholics”.
Christian doesn’t mean female, either, because good God-fearing women? Yeah, they Know Better than to want to work outside the home. (Like, you know, for actual money?)
“Christian” is code for Klan-approved WASP male, and the code’s about as subtle as pig Latin.
So when are we going to stop playing along with it?
Well, of course!
What’s your point here? Just ask OfNamor — she’ll tell you!
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Lambert -- I believe in calling a spade a spade
except when it’s a shovel, and then, if it’s loaded, I’ll point out that it’s full of shit.
Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and especially James Dobson — take a good hard look at the inner circles of their organization.
They’re not being busted hard enough for their co-optivation of what can be, when practiced according to the tenets chronicled in the Gospels (I keep hearing how Paul was a women’s libber, and I’m perfectly certain that’s a crock), a lifeway that’s giving, open, peaceful, and conscientious.
You’ll notice I didn’t say it *is*, as practiced by most of its current vocal “adherents,” especially in the EEUU, but it can be.
Jeez, I can't get a rise out of OfNamor...
Maybe a subject line will do it!
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Hey, I saw it. I was busy
putting up that Gonzales Memo story. Namor in fact it was who brought the Murray Waas-Not Waas piece to my attention, having seen it in Taegan Goddard who I should have credited.
Now as to this ofNamor business…harumph, I say. As we never got around to certain legalities I am still technically a widowed single person, so have no Of to be of. However I find that “ofNamor” so inexplicably charming I will okay its usage—on rare occasions—in the future.
I’m probably gonna regret this, I realize. :)
However, now being down to real crunch time in finding a job/chest of treasure (no, not that DC Madame kind! Shame on you for such a thought) or otherwise new income stream as my old one runs out in about two days, I can tell you I will smilingly grit both my remaining teeth and swear I am and have always been a faithful member of any goddamn church, temple, mosque, cathedral, shrine, house church or any other outpost of belief that suits anybody who will fork over a couple of thou a month.
If I get down to where I have to apply to one of the snake-handling sorts I demand to supply my own serpent.