Justice Department Decision Could Extend Religious Hiring Rights

Claire Hughes has this report The Roudtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy that begins: “A Justice Department opinion published last week has renewed the debate at the center of the Bush Administration’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative - a controversy that has even made it to the 2008 presidential campaigns – over whether religious organizations should retain the right to employ only those of their own faith when the positions are funded with tax dollars . . . “