If you take federal funds you should be required to serve everyone, you should not be allowed to discriminate.
You live in a small city when you are fired from you job because the employers says your transition violates the owners religious beliefs. Your landlord throws you out on the street saying your transition violates his religious beliefs. You go to a homeless shelter but they won’t let you in say your transition violates the religious beliefs of the organizations. You try the food pantry but you got it… they say your transition violates the pantry’s religious beliefs. You curl up on a park bench wrap yourself in some old newspapers to keep warm… in the morning they find your body frozen on the park bench and the police use your old name.
Up until the Bush (43) administration if you were a religious institution you couldn’t receive federal funds but then an exception was made, if you are a religious institution you could receive federal funding as long as you didn’t discriminate in doling out the money. Now under the current administration it has morphed into religious institution receiving federal funds can discriminate because of “religious freedom.”
It used to be “one nation, one law” now it is “one nation, many laws.”
It is only going to get worst when Kavanaugh is confirmed by the Senate in the next weeks there will be five Supreme Court justices who believe in “Religious Freedom.” They believe that the Bible trumps the Constitution.
*Oh, the simple solution… don’t take federal funds if you want to discriminate.
When I was doing training for homeless shelters in Connecticut one of the shelters’ managers said “No way was he going to allow a woman with a p***s in his women shelter.” Well after we tried to tell him that he had to let trans women in the shelter and he stood pat; the woman from HUD on our panel said “Okay, then give the money back to the HUD and to the state if you don’t want to follow the law.”
He wrote letters to our senators and HUD, they all replied… obey the law!
Now under the current administration I don’t know what the response would have been.
Gavel Drop: Evangelicals Claim Religious Objections to Serving Transgender HomelessIn another article on Rewired News,
A recent Alliance Defending Freedom lawsuit argues that a Christian homeless shelter can refuse to admit transgender women due to its beliefs.
Rewire News
By Brie Shea
September 24, 2018
The Alliance Defending Freedom is now arguing in federal court to allow homeless shelters to deny services for transgender people. Downtown Soup Kitchen in Anchorage, Alaska, filed the religious freedom lawsuit against Anchorage earlier this year over the city’s nondiscrimination law; a case had been filed against the center after it denied a transgender woman admission to its shelter. The shelter director said that the woman was denied because she appeared drunk, but also that it would never accept a “biological man.”
Leaked Title IX Rule Would Allow Religious Schools to Discriminate—Without Saying WhyI can imagine this scenario…
Advocates expressed alarm over the leaked Title IX rule proposal, saying it will only end up hurting survivors of campus sexual assault.
By Katelyn Burns
September 18, 2018
A leaked copy of U.S. Department of Education (DOE) Secretary Betsy DeVos’ proposed rule for handling campus sexual assault allegations appears to reveal a plan to make exemptions to Title IX anti-discrimination laws easier for religious institutions.
The New York Times in August obtained a copy of the coming rule, which has yet to be publicly released, reporting that it would “would bolster the rights of students accused of assault, harassment, or rape; reduce liability for institutions of higher education; and encourage schools to provide more support for victims.” A copy of the draft rule, posted online by the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) and reviewed by Rewire.News, shows that it may also give broad license to religious institutions to claim exemptions from Title IX regulations, which protects against sex-based discrimination in education. ATIXA believes the document is authentic.
In order to bypass the federal regulations, religious institutions must currently send a letter to the DOE explaining which Title IX provisions they are claiming an exemption from, and the religious rationale behind the request. But the new rule would wipe away that requirement, even if the institution is the subject of an ongoing DOE investigation.
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According to legal experts, waiving the letter system for religious exemptions could open the door for schools to abuse the current system. “As it’s written in the leaked draft, religiously affiliated schools could simply assert a faith-based objection to complying with Title IX and the government would take them at their word,” said Jessica Mason Pieklo, vice president of law and the courts at Rewire.News in an interview. “While the letter system is far from perfect, it at least provides some check on institutions from abusing the Title IX religious exemption. The Trump administration is proposing removing even that modest check.”
You live in a small city when you are fired from you job because the employers says your transition violates the owners religious beliefs. Your landlord throws you out on the street saying your transition violates his religious beliefs. You go to a homeless shelter but they won’t let you in say your transition violates the religious beliefs of the organizations. You try the food pantry but you got it… they say your transition violates the pantry’s religious beliefs. You curl up on a park bench wrap yourself in some old newspapers to keep warm… in the morning they find your body frozen on the park bench and the police use your old name.
Up until the Bush (43) administration if you were a religious institution you couldn’t receive federal funds but then an exception was made, if you are a religious institution you could receive federal funding as long as you didn’t discriminate in doling out the money. Now under the current administration it has morphed into religious institution receiving federal funds can discriminate because of “religious freedom.”
It used to be “one nation, one law” now it is “one nation, many laws.”
It is only going to get worst when Kavanaugh is confirmed by the Senate in the next weeks there will be five Supreme Court justices who believe in “Religious Freedom.” They believe that the Bible trumps the Constitution.
*Oh, the simple solution… don’t take federal funds if you want to discriminate.
When I was doing training for homeless shelters in Connecticut one of the shelters’ managers said “No way was he going to allow a woman with a p***s in his women shelter.” Well after we tried to tell him that he had to let trans women in the shelter and he stood pat; the woman from HUD on our panel said “Okay, then give the money back to the HUD and to the state if you don’t want to follow the law.”
He wrote letters to our senators and HUD, they all replied… obey the law!
Now under the current administration I don’t know what the response would have been.
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