New York Times: “Faith-based discrimination”

New York Times editorial: “[President Obama] promised a vitally important change [to the faith-based initiative]: groups receiving federal money would no longer be allowed to hire employees on the basis of their religion . . . But Mr. Obama has not made good on the promise.”

Robert John Araujo, SJ comments at Mirror of Justice: “[W]hen The New York Times encourages the Federal Government to adopt its standard, this would indeed be a church-state separation problem because the Federal Government, by adopting the Times’ position, would in fact dictate to the religious institution that has a different view than the Times that it must abandon its beliefs to get financial support. However, if the religious institution agrees with the Times, then financial support is on its way. Now that would be unjust discrimination, and, furthermore, it would be a breach of ‘the wall of separation.’”