Intercept: South Carolina lobbies Trump administration to allow discrimination against non-Protestant foster parents

[Winehole23]

Religious freedom means the freedom to discriminate against people who don't share your faith and cultural beliefs.


THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is considering whether to grant a South Carolina request that would effectively allow faith-based foster care agencies in the state the ability to deny Jewish parents from fostering children in its network. The argument, from the state and from the agency, is that the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act should not force a Protestant group to work with Jewish people if it violates a tenet of their faith.


The case being made by South Carolina is an extension of the debate around RFRA, which is more commonly associated with discrimination against LGBTQ people, but by no means applies exclusively to that group.


If granted, the exemption would allow Miracle Hill Ministries, a Protestant social service agency working in the state’s northwest region, to continue receiving federal dollars while “recruiting Christian foster families,” which it has been doing since 1988 (https://miraclehill.org/how-we-help/childrens-home/foster-care/), according to its website. That discrimination would apply not just to Jewish parents, but also to parents who are Muslim, Catholic, Unitarian, atheist, agnostic or other some other non-Protestant Christian denomination.
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/19/south-carolina-foster-parent-discrimination-miracle-hill-ministries/

[DMC]

Your thread title is longer than your take on the subject, which is nil.

[Winehole23]

Both are accurate, the latter is a take.

[Spurtacular]

:lol Leftists hate faith.

[Winehole23]

I've got a problem with discrimination against non-Protestants.

I'm not sure how that equates to hating religion, can you explain how?

[Winehole23]

To put a finer point on it, I take a dim view of discrimination against Jews and Catholics.

[Winehole23]

Does discrimination against Jews and Catholics fall under closely held religious beliefs that should be protected under federal law, as South Carolina seems to think?

[Pavlov]

:lol Leftists hate faith.Are you in favor of this kind of discrimination, derp?

Yes or no.

[Winehole23]

he'll never, never say

[Spurtacular]

Are you in favor of this kind of discrimination, derp?

Yes or no.

Do you think that "discrimination" is not a reality when it comes to adoption, regardless of the service?

[Winehole23]

Move from the abstract to the concrete: Miracle Hill denies adoption to Jews and Catholics period.

Are you cool with that?

If so, why?

[boutons_deux]

do the christian Taliban take in non-Christian babies?

If they have a non-Prod baby, it can only go to Prod parents?

Fuck SC and all red states

[Winehole23]

fuck off, boutons

[Pavlov]

Do you think that "discrimination" is not a reality when it comes to adoption, regardless of the service?
Are you in favor of this discrimination, derp?

Yes or no.

[Spurtacular]

Are you in favor of this discrimination, derp?

Yes or no.

:lmao Chump thinks we live in a world of lollipops and unicorns.

[Winehole23]

you're ducking a plain question.

do you think religious freedom means the freedom to discriminate against Jews and Catholics?

[Pavlov]

:lmao Chump thinks we live in a world of lollipops and unicorns.Are you in favor of this discrimination, derp?

Yes or no.

[Spurtacular]

Are you in favor of this discrimination, derp?

Yes or no.

Yes. I think they should discriminate against sociopaths.

[pgardn]

Yes. I think they should discriminate against sociopaths.

Then shackle yourself.

[Chucho]

fuck off, boutons

Not a whole lot of places for him to fuck off to. His trailer isnt even a double wide.

[Chucho]

Then shackle yourself.

He doesnt know what a sociopath is and doesnt think he's sociopathic despite all his sociopath behaviors and obsessions.

[Spurtacular]

:lol PlayBonner level poster.

[Pavlov]

Yes. I think they should discriminate against sociopaths.Should this foster agency discriminate against Jews and Catholics, derp?

Yes or no.

[Spurtacular]

Should this foster agency discriminate against Jews and Catholics, derp?

Yes or no.

They select based on what they have deemed the best criteria. Discriminate means someone deserves something. They don't.

[DMC]

you're ducking a plain question.

do you think religious freedom means the freedom to discriminate against Jews and Catholics?

If your religion requires it, why not?

[Winehole23]

which religion requires it?

[Pavlov]

They select based on what they have deemed the best criteria. Discriminate means someone deserves something. They don't.
:lmao that isn't what that word means at all.

Should this agency discriminate against Jews and Catholics?

Yes or no.

[Chucho]

:lmao that isn't what that word means at all.

Should this agency discriminate against Jews and Catholics?

Yes or no.

ROFL. What a fucking idiot.

[SnakeBoy]

Move from the abstract to the concrete: Miracle Hill denies adoption to Jews and Catholics period.

Are you cool with that?

If so, why?

I'm cool with that if they aren't getting public funding. As long as they're helping kids who need help I don't see a problem.

[Pavlov]

I'm cool with that if they aren't getting public funding. As long as they're helping kids who need help I don't see a problem. They are getting public funding.

[Spurtacular]

:lmao that isn't what that word means at all.

Should this agency discriminate against Jews and Catholics?

Yes or no.

They should be allowed to apply their criteria within the law.

[Pavlov]

They should be allowed to apply their criteria within the law.
Derp, you didn't answer the question.

Should the be allowed to discriminate against Jews and Catholics?

Yes or no.

[Spurtacular]

Derp, you didn't answer the question.

Should the be allowed to discriminate against Jews and Catholics?

Yes or no.

I've gave you my answer. Stop spamming.

[Winehole23]

I'm cool with that if they aren't getting public funding. As long as they're helping kids who need help I don't see a problem.If you don't see a problem there must not be one.

[Pavlov]

I've gave you my answer. Stop spamming.

You gave a cop out.

Should they be able to discriminate against Jews and Catholics, derp?

Yes or no.

[Spurtacular]

You gave a cop out.

Should they be able to discriminate against Jews and Catholics, derp?

Yes or no.

No

[Winehole23]

"so long as it's done according to the law"

[Winehole23]

NoWhy not? Snake Boy seems to think it's ok.

[Winehole23]

DHS rules in favor of Miracle Hill Ministries. Under its interpretation of the RFRA, South Carolina can discriminate against Catholics, Jews and gays.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-adoption-same-sex-couples-jews-miracle-mill.html

[boutons_deux]

DHS rules in favor of Miracle Hill Ministries. Under its interpretation of the RFRA, South Carolina can discriminate against Catholics, Jews and gays.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-adoption-same-sex-couples-jews-miracle-mill.html

goddam, the fucking Protestants are fucking, hated-filled assholes.

fucking S. Carolina, eternal slave/racist state

[Winehole23]

Now Tennessee

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[Winehole23]

They lost

"No Jews Allowed" even though the agency is publicly funded.

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[ElNono]

They lost

"No Jews Allowed" even though the agency is publicly funded.

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Hopefully they appeal all the way up to the SCOTUS