Thanks to the Wintry Knight, who linked to Buzzfeed. The flower fascists have gone for it. They want to regulate our churches and ensure they can enter and poison.

Non discrimination means no faith clause: no morals clause. It would take out the PCANZ (my church) because an elder must either be celibate or living in holy matrimony. Gays excepted. And it would definitely take out Grace Presbyterian (the best local student church) because only men can be elders.

(Practically and theologically, Grace is correct. But they want atheists in theological seminaries, and Imans or Buddhists as Catholic priests).

So look at the list of groups that signed them, and avoid them as much as possible. Poison they are to the church and a danger to you.

REQUEST FOR REVIEW AND RECONSIDERATION OFJUNE 29, 2007 OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL MEMORANDUM RE: RFRAAugust 20, 2015The Honorable Barack H. ObamaPresident of the United StatesThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20500Dear Mr. President:The 130 undersigned religious, education, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health organizations write to request that you direct the Attorney General to instruct the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) to review and reconsider its flawed June 29, 2007 Memorandum titled, Re: Application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to the Award of a Grant Pursuant to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (OLC Memo). The OLC Memo reaches the erroneous and dangerous conclusion that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) provides a blanket override of a statutory non-discrimination provision. If left in place, the OLC Memo will tarnish the legacy of your work to advance fairness and equal treatment under the law for all Americans.Some of us were members of the Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion, which led the effort to persuade Congress to enact legislation after the United States Supreme Court sharply curtailed Free Exercise Clause protections in Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990). This effort culminated in 1993, when then-President William J. Clinton signed RFRA into law.RFRA was intended to provide protection for free exercise rights, applying strict scrutiny, on a case-by-case basis, to federal laws that substantially burden religious exercise. RFRA was not intended to create blanket exemptions to laws that protect against discrimination.Yet, in contrast to this, the OLC Memo relies on flawed legal analysis and wrongly asserts that RFRA is “reasonably construed to require” a federal agency to categorically exempt a religiously affiliated organization from a grant program’s explicit statutory non- discrimination provision, thus permitting the grantee to discriminate in hiring with taxpayer funds without regard to the government’s compelling interest in prohibiting such discrimination.The OLC Memo’s broad and erroneous interpretation of RFRA has far-reaching consequences. For example, although the OLC Memo’s conclusion is focused on one grantee in one Justice Department program, the Department has implemented it as a categorical exemption—that does not even require an individualized inquiry—to all religious hiring discrimination bans, most recently in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The Department of Labor has also cited the OLC Memo to adopt a categorical prohibition. Moreover, some have cited the OLC Memo in arguing that RFRA should broadly exempt religiously affiliated contractors from the nondiscrimination requirements in Executive Order 11246, including those you added just last year that bar government contractors from discriminating against LGBT workers. And, some are trying to extend its reach beyond the context of hiring: Several grantees and contractors have cited the OLC Memo to support their arguments that the government should create a blanket exemption that would allow them to refuse to provide services or referrals required under those funding agreements, specifically in the context of medical care for unaccompanied immigrant children who have suffered sexual abuse.Throughout your presidency, you have committed to uphold this Nation’s laws and values. Indeed, in March, when discussing the Indiana RFRA, your Press Secretary said discrimination is “not consistent with our values as a country that we hold dear.” Even before you were elected President in 2008, you promised to end federally funded hiring discrimination, because of the government’s profound and enduring commitment to upholding the civil rights principle that it must not fund discrimination. The deeply harmful OLC Memo severely undermines this commitment.Contrary to the conclusion in the OLC Memo, RFRA is not a tool to categorically override statutory protections against religious hiring discrimination. Nor does it create an absolute free exercise right—without regard to countervailing compelling interests, as required by RFRA—to receive government grants without complying with applicable regulations that protect taxpayers and participants in federally funded programs.We accordingly request that the OLC Memo be reviewed and its erroneous and dangerous interpretation of RFRA be reconsidered as soon as possible.Thank you in advance for your consideration of our views.Full List Of Signing Organizations:9to5, National Association of Working WomenAdvocates for YouthAfrican American Ministers In ActionAFSCMEAIDS UnitedAJC (American Jewish Committee)American Association of University Women (AAUW)American AtheistsAmerican Baptist Home Mission SocietiesAmerican Civil Liberties UnionAmerican Federation of TeachersAmerican Humanist AssociationAmerican Sexual Health AssociationAmerican-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committe

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