{"id":2546,"date":"2010-08-12T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2010-08-12T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T07:30:19","slug":"religious-right-tolerance-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/religious-right-tolerance-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Right Tolerance? Ha!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Religious Right believes in freedom of religion\u2026 for their religion ONLY!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12crossroads\"<\/a> How do you think the Religious Right would react to a scenario in which several Christian teachers and employees were fired from a school for not holding the proper views?  Most likely, they’d scream "discrimination."<\/p>\n

Now how do you think the Religious Right would react to a scenario in which several teachers were fired from a Christian school for not holding the proper views?  Most likely, they’d say the school has the right to set its own religious requirements and to determine who it hires and fires accordingly.<\/p>\n

So I am genuinely curious about how they will respond <\/span>to this story<\/a> in about a Christian school firing a bunch of Catholic employees for not being "born again": <\/span><\/p>\n

Four teachers and seven other workers<\/strong> at a Southern California religious school have been fired because of differences in biblical interpretation and incompatible beliefs.<\/p>\n

Most of the dismissed workers were Roman Catholics whose beliefs conflicted with those of Corona’s conservative evangelical Crossroads Christian Schools, which last year lost its autonomy and came under the umbrella of the 8,000-member Crossroads Christian Church next door.<\/p>\n

"To me, it feels like religious cleansing," said the Rev. John Saville of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where fired elementary teacher Marylou Goodman is a parishioner.<\/p>\n

The fired employees had been told a year ago of the school’s closer relationship with the church and a requirement that they attend a "Bible-believing church," meaning born-again. <\/p>\n

The employees had reportedly signed a "statement of faith" which summarized Crossroads’ beliefs and saw nothing with which they disagreed, but authorities at the school believed that these employees "weren’t living out" the statement, <\/strong><\/span>in part because they have not received the proper baptism<\/strong><\/a>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Right Wing Watch<\/a>><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say whether or not this school receives state of federal funds.  If it doesn\u2019t they are exercising their right to be wrong.  If it does, that are in violation of the establishment clause abd the guarantee of equal protection.  The poor children!  Imagine that they had to associate with people who had been sprinkled instead of dunked!!<\/font><\/p>\n

But if you think that bad, look how Keith Olbermann and Rep. Keith Ellison exposed how these ideologues who misrepresent Christianity behave toward other faiths.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Republican Religious Right believes in freedom of religion\u2026 for their religion ONLY! How do you think the Religious Right would react to a scenario in which several Christian teachers and employees were fired from a school for not holding the proper views?  Most likely, they’d scream "discrimination." Now how do you think the Religious […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}