Okay, now I'm surprised

Obama...only supports letting religious institutions hire and fire based on faith in the non-taxpayer funded portions of their activities, said a senior adviser to the campaign, who spoke on condition of anonymity to more freely describe the new policy.

Look, they're going to do that anyway. But you can't be officially condoning things like that. What are you going to do with the lawsuit that asks why, if churches can discriminate in hiring based on strongly held belief, everyone else is denied that right? What are you going to do with the church that fills their taxpayer-funded positions internally from among people hired for the non-taxpayer funded positions?

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On July 1st, 2008 Quaker in a Basement says:

Look, they're going to do that anyway. But you can't be officially condoning things like that.

It's difficult not to take a position one way or the other. If a politician is going to come out in favor of giving federal money to faith-based organizations to run social services, then the question is on the table: What strings are attached?

You have to take the

On July 1st, 2008 Prometheus 6 says:

You have to take the position that social traits irrelevant to the work cannot be taken into account. It's one of our aspirational laws. I'm just acknowledgingfolks will work around it successfully.

We are talking about the non-taxpayer funded part.

On July 1st, 2008 Quaker in a Basement says:

I mean, it's fair for the Catholic church to require priests to be Catholic. And yes, folks will work around the intended barriers between tax-funded and non-tax-funded.

Funding Church-Sponsored Programs

On July 1st, 2008 ptcruiser says:

Folks will be cool with all this until Trinity United Church of Christ submits its application and seeks its place at the trough like any other church. Trinity has a long and distinguished record in providing social services to needy people. It will be extremely difficulty to deny them.

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