Mukasey Misstep?: Attorney General Says No To Religious Discrimination
Rob Boston has a commentary on the Americans United for Separation of Church website discussing recent comments by Attorney General Mukasey before the House Judiciary Committee. Boston writes:
But at one point, U.S. Rep. Robert C. Scott (D-Va.) asked a question on another topic . . .
[Virginia Rep. Robert] Scott responded, “I’m sorry. We have discrimination laws on the books. Should it be legal for somebody to say, with federal money, you can’t get a job solely because of your religion?”
Responded Mukasey, “It should not.”
Really? This has not been the line the Bush administration has been pursuing for the past seven years. Bush and his backers in the Religious Right have insisted that houses of worship and other religious groups should be able to take tax dollars under the “faith-based” initiative and still discriminate on religious grounds when hiring staff.