theramblingnarcissist:

Time to pay up.

And then there’s this. A woman was fired from her job as a teacher at a Lutheran school. She filed a discrimination case. The Supreme Court unanimously sided with the church, effectively saying that a church can discriminate in it’s decisions about employees.
A Lutheran school is a business, not a church. Just because a church runs the business does not mean that religious freedom should trump basic human rights. Besides, I fail to see how settling this woman’s case would somehow infringe upon religious freedom. In my opinion, of course. I’m not a Supreme Court Justice, so my opinion matters little. But this does make me Supremely uncomfortable.

theramblingnarcissist:

Time to pay up.

And then there’s this. A woman was fired from her job as a teacher at a Lutheran school. She filed a discrimination case. The Supreme Court unanimously sided with the church, effectively saying that a church can discriminate in it’s decisions about employees.

A Lutheran school is a business, not a church. Just because a church runs the business does not mean that religious freedom should trump basic human rights. Besides, I fail to see how settling this woman’s case would somehow infringe upon religious freedom. In my opinion, of course. I’m not a Supreme Court Justice, so my opinion matters little. But this does make me Supremely uncomfortable.

Posted on 27 January, 2012, 11:28am. Reblogged from ryking and Originally from theramblingnarcissist. This post has 1,940 notes.
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