The Republican Religious Right believes in freedom of religion… 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 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.
So I am genuinely curious about how they will respond to this story in about a Christian school firing a bunch of Catholic employees for not being "born again":
Four teachers and seven other workers at a Southern California religious school have been fired because of differences in biblical interpretation and incompatible beliefs.
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.
"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.
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.
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, in part because they have not received the proper baptism… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Right Wing Watch>
I can’t say whether or not this school receives state of federal funds. If it doesn’t 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!!
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.
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10 Responses to “Religious Right Tolerance? Ha!”
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How God like.. No wonder atheism is up.
Don’t blame God, Tim. She has nothing to do with the religious right.
Geller, I’m cool with not building any more mosques. As long as we don’t build any more churches and temples? Sounds fair.
Lisa, there are a few moaques, churches and temples that do good work and are non judgemental. I would like to see more like that.
The Taliban would understand. If you expose children to someone who doesn’t think the same as you, what next?
( / sarcasm )
P.S. this school should lose every tax exemption plus any government-related licensing. Teach hate all you want, just don’t expect to force me to support you.
Welcome, RE. 🙂
I agree.
I wonder how many parents yanked their kids from the school because of this? I would guess very few, if any. I’ve actually been to this church. It was over 20 years ago, before it reached “mega-” status. But even then, the Kool-Aid was flowing in the aisles. Once was more than enough for me.
SF, I would agree with that projection. Of late Republican religious right pastors are more likely to follow their flocks into folly than lead them into truth.
Supply-side Jesus churches have that effect on a fellow. 😉
TC
That wasn’t blaming God, it was to show irony. They profess to be one thing but certainly don’t follow the fisherman’s way. Not that I believe, but they do.
I stand corrected, Tim. I misundertook you. 😉