Philadelphia punishes catholic adoption agency because it won't place children with gay people, can no longer operate. This has now gone to the U.S. S

[abucs]

The government is not there to facilitate the work of religious communities. That’s why since the time of Thomas Jefferson there has been a principle of “separation of church and state”. People who work for the state are supposed to rise above their religious beliefs. We don’t have Baptist judges and Catholic judges and Jewish judges, each one making decisions based on which religious community they belong to.

Is it the secular belief that rising above your religious belief means becoming secular?
The state is making a mistake when it sees itself as establishing the ‘religion’ of secularism. At some point the American system will have to realise it has made a wrong turn in the way it treats religious communities viza ve secular communities.

There is also a separation of state and judiciary. That does not mean the state does not fund the judiciary.

The government is there to facilitate communities and some communities are religious. It is wrong for government to say they are not going to facilitate any community, no matter how much taxes they take from it, unless it acts as a secular community.

That is the wrong type of discrimination. I think there are signs that the government is beginning to see the wrong turn and improve it’s approach to a more fairer ideology.

 

[Feanor2]

If the agency is receiving public funds they need to abide by public policy which includes not discrimination.

It is sad nevertheless.

 

[abucs]

If the agency is receiving public funds they need to abide by public policy which includes not discrimination.

It is sad nevertheless.

Except of course giving people’s money back to them only if they are going to act in a strictly defined secular way is discriminating in favour of secularism and against religious communities.

If public policy is defined by secular ideology that favours itself then this is discrimination. As mentioned above, discrimination is a secular ethic that is subjective. One often can’t see the discrimination if it is favouring oneself.