August 12, 2011: Religious Hiring Rights
At the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore, executive director Bob Gehman says, "If we were not able to discriminate in our hiring practices based on our faith and religion, that would change us."

At the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore, executive director Bob Gehman says, "If we were not able to discriminate in our hiring practices based on our faith and religion, that would change us."
The Republican Party made significant gains with Catholic voters as well as white Protestants. Did the Democrats give up on religious outreach?
Arizona gives tax credits to people who donate money to school tuition organizations that provide student scholarships. A group of taxpayers claims most of the money goes to religious education.
President Obama hosted a November 1 White House meeting with 20 US Christian leaders affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Church World Service.
"I don't see any special right in the Constitution or elsewhere that allows a church to take money and discriminate," says the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Ethicists and religious leaders are only just beginning to think about the moral questions and ethical consequences of unmanned weapons systems.
Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, gives his assessment of President Barack Obama’s first 100 days.
Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, a member of the president’s faith advisory council, talks about the new access religious moderates and liberals have to the White House.

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