- DOJ: Fighting for Christian Rights
Across America, churches and Christian organizations are discriminated against.
Oftentimes it’s the Planning Commission and zoning.
Other times it’s some type of ordinance or vote by the city council.
Now the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division launched an investigation into the City of Rainsville, Alabama.
The city may have violated title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), and the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by denying a faith-based organization’s application to operate an addiction-recovery facility in the city.
The program rehabilitated men with drug and alcohol dependency, and other life-controlling problems, based on a faith program.
RLUIPA law is a federal law that guards religious institutions from unduly burdensome, unequal, or discriminatory land use regulations.
- Court Victory: Religious Freedom
Christian organizations just won a critical court victory.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the right of World Vision to refuse to extend a job offer for a client services position to a woman who revealed that she was in a same-sex marriage.
The court’s decision was grounded in a First Amendment doctrine known as the “ministerial exception.”
The First Amendment applies to both state and federal laws.
This was a suit in the state of Washington.
Unfortunately, the court made it clear that not all positions are protected by the ministerial exception. It depends if the employee performs vital religious duties tied to the core mission of the employer when determining if the employee falls under the First Amendment’s ministerial exception.
- Judge Holmes – Judicial Activist – Releases Illegal Abrego Garcia
Judge Holmes has a long history of Democrat party activism, donating to Democrat candidates.
An Obama-appointed judge blocked accused wife-beater Abrego Garcia’s deportation to Uganda, saying the illegal immigrant must remain in the United States.