Bush backs off anti-gay proposal http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/july01/2001-07-11-gays.htm
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration backed away from a proposed regulation Tuesday that would have allowed religious groups to receive federal funds even if they discriminated against gays and lesbians in hiring. [...] Controversy erupted Tuesday after The Washington Post reported that the White House had struck a deal with the Salvation Army, which is considered the nation's largest charity based on donations. Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/july01/2001-07-11-gays.htm
Of course, it doesn't make "Faith-Based" any more pleasing...
ooooooooo Kevin Dean Buffalo, NY ***Visit http://www.yaysoft.com for the latest in computers, politics and strange off-the-wall news and discussions!*** ICQ # 8616001 ooooo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Grimes" <cgrimes at tsoft.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:22 PM Subject: Re: Faith based discrimination
>
> ``WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is working with the nation's
> largest charity, the Salvation Army, to make it easier for
> government-funded religious groups to practice hiring discrimination
> against gay people,...''
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>
> This is just the tail of the tiger. Virtually all the civil rights
> laws on the books started out as provisions in the regulations and
> implementations of federal funding legislation that enabled a vast
> array of federal grants and contracts (see Catalog of Federal Domestic
> Assistance for a full listing).
>
> While the above article and the White House seem focused on state and
> local municipality law, the bigger problem is at the federal
> level. Virtually all federal project grants that are the target for
> this right-wing religious pilfering of public money will run up against
> a forty year history of civil rights law and regulation of social
> services (i.e public accommodation).
>
> I would urge anybody out there working in anything from pre-school
> programs to social policy research to get their lawyers ready to hit
> this bullshit administration move with a massive legal assault. The
> goal would be to jam the court system to a halt, since there is
> little likelihood the mealy mouthed suck-offs on the bench will do
> shit. They have pretty much discredited themselves entirely since the
> Florida election debacle.
>
> If you all let this go by folks, then you can kiss civil rights
> enforcement in federally funded programs good-bye. I don't mean
> good-by in name only. I mean good-bye as a legal principle, period.
>
> Chuck Grimes
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