Urge Your Representative to Oppose Religious Discrimination

[Guest guest]

 

 

 

Matt

Howes, National Internet Organizer, ACLU

 

 

 

 

To:

 

 

ACLU

Action Network Members

 

 

 

 

Subject:

 

 

Urge

Your Representative to Oppose Religious Discrimination

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The

House of Representatives is scheduled to vote next week on a bill that would

further President Bush's faith-based program for government-funded religion.

The bill would allow organizations that receive our tax dollars to

discriminate against employees on the basis of their religion. An amendment

to restore civil rights protections is expected to be introduced by Rep.

Bobby Scott of Virginia. This

civil rights amendment should be supported.

Act

Now to Urge Congress to Oppose Government-Funded Religious Discrimination!

The

proposed legislation would jeopardize civil rights and religious freedom

because it would roll back protection against discrimination or misuse of

government funds by religious organizations. For the first time ever, it

would allow religious organizations involved in federal job training programs

to discriminate according to religion when hiring staff for these

taxpayer-funded services.

Non-profits

-- whether religious or secular -- that provide taxpayer-funded services

currently need to obey federal hiring guidelines. Under this proposal,

religious non-profits would be able to hire individuals only from their

particular regligion to provide thse

taxpayer-funded services. For example, a highly qualified social worker might

be rejected because she " wasn't the right kind of Christian " to

work on a job training program.

Last

Congress, similar attempts at relgious

discrimination were beaten back thanks to the emails and letters sent by ACLU

Action Network activists. We need to let Congress know that we are still

standing strong against religious discrimination and do not want this

legislation to pass unless critical civil rights protections are restored.

Click

here for more information and to take action:

http://www.aclu.org/ReligiousLiberty/ReligiousLiberty.cfm?ID=17427 & c=29