Originally Posted by
GiGi
Applicants for public money are made aware of anti-discrimination laws, and must agree to abide or forfeit the money.
The law prohibits discrimination in all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, firing, compensation, benefits, *** ***ignments, promotions, and discipline. It also prohibits practices that seem neutral but have a disproportionate impact on a protected group of people.
Race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age......if the church discriminates-which is perfectly okay-it can do so and still keep its tax exemption, but it can't get additional funding from the government.
The same rules protect against religious discrimination.
Same-sex couples pay taxes just like everybody else.
If you still think this is "underhanded", explain why the Church agreed to the terms in the first place; terms clearly spelled out from the beginning. The "loop hole" is, the church chooses money over so-called religious conviction.
I've never seen a hospital run by bowlers, quilters, marathon runners, or atheists. Do you mean secular hospitals? In that case, the answer is pretty clear.