In case you have been in borneo and don't know it - the progressives of this country have largely become anti-theists and they are waging a war on religion.
The standard tactic is to take every secular opportunity to make it harder for private citizens to practice their religion - mush like the tactics in the war on guns. No beuracratic rule is too small or too unrelated to be wielded as a weapon.
So what is the newest attack? Its not even that it is new - it is that the scope of it is so large that should they win they will have assumed the power to regulate every aspect of religious life in America.
IN a world of widening and often ridiculous concepts of discrimination the line between religious freedoms and discriminatory policies has been intentionally blurred in an attempt to drive religion from the market. If progressives had their way you could practice whatever religion you wanted as long as you did it in the privacy of your own bedroom, er, I mean closet, er, I mean basement, well you get the point.
I admit I find it hard to balance real issues of discrimination from real issues of religious freedom but in this case it is easy to see the truth.
For a long time churches were allowed to hire whoever they thought best for religious positions but were required to use secular standards in the hiring of non-religious positions. The line was often crossed by those persecuting churches in making sure that they used secular principles in hiring for what are marginally secular positions.
But today the present administration filled with anti-theists at every level is fighting the battle to allow the courts to decide on every matter of faith. The courts could decide if the Catholic church was in error for not hiring the Jehova's Witness as a priest. The courts could decide if the curriculum of a religious school required a teacher who understood that religion or not - and they would make that decision despite the likelihood of having no understanding itself. The courts would decide if internal complaints were brought to the elders or brought to a secular court...the potential list is endless. Churches that stood firm without compromising their principles would be shut out of public life at best, forced to close their doors on average, and their members jailed at worst. Churches that caved would cease to resemble churches at all.
The progressive administration could have demonstrated itself to be a pluralistic minded movement but instead choose to take an aggressive stand never before seen on these shores by arguing in court that churches do not get to choose their own leadership or members.
Link to article here:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/05/a-religious-clash/
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