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Title: Obama’s lawyers bid to regulate religious hiring Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 04, 2011, 07:57:41 AM http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/04/obamas-lawyers-bid-to-regulate-religious-hiring/
Quote President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice will ask the Supreme Court this week to eliminate a long-standing legal precedent that protects religious organizations from government regulations. The department “is going against what almost every court has decided … it has has taken an outlier position,” said Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law & Religion at Emory University. “It does seem to do that,” said Barry Lynn, who has run Americans United for Separation of Church and State since 1992, after working for the ACLU for several years. “It is quite unusual because this administration has not been good on … church-state issues,” he told TheDC. |