100 Religious Leaders to Obama: No Religious Exemption in ENDA Executive Order

[Htom Sirveaux]

One hundred religious leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and interfaith organizations have signed a letter to President Obama, asking that he not include a religious exemption in a forthcoming executive order barring hiring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by federal contractors.

http://religiondispatches.org/100-religious-leaders-to-obama-no-religious-exemption-in-enda-executive-order/

The whole letter, including a list of the signers, can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8wzzpbviygds1pv/Faith%20Letter%20to%20President%20Defending%20Exec%20Order%202014-07-08%20FINAL.pdf

[freshwest]

1. This man gets the big picture:

Last week the Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance and one of the signers of today’s letter, said, “The tenet that religion should never be legitimated as a license to discriminate remains our core belief; that federal money must never be used to fund such discrimination must remain the bedrock of religious freedom in America.”

If government favors a religion, it ends religious freedom. EOM.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Too bad they aren't from the religions that matter.

You know, Evangelicals and Roman Catholics. The 'real' religions. They're allowed to discriminate. Those liberal religious denominations don't count.

[Hekate]

3. That's great -- I think he needs the support. There ARE liberal religious denominations out there...

...and they are not any happier than we are that the crazies have taken over the public square.