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- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!allen
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: Special Rights (was: Wanted: Post election comments on Prop. 9)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.164647.14870@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <1992Nov17.174318.16475@u.washington.edu> <16390002@b-mrda.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:46:47 GMT
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- miller@b-mrda.ca.boeing.com (Mark Miller) writes:
-
- >I'd like net.reaction to the following hypothetical situation:
-
- >A church has an opening for a youth group leader. One applicant
- >says that he is a homosexual. The church's board of elders (or
- >other governing body) refuses to employ the applicant on the basis
- >of his homosexuality, citing Romans chapter 1 and saying that the
- >applicant's beliefs contradict the church's values.
-
- >In your opinion, has the church acted properly? Should the church be
- >forced to hire and/or compensate the individual?
-
- This *may* be a moot point in that since Churches are usually classified
- as non-profit, I believe that they fall under different guidelines
- concerning employment and are exempt from EO laws.
-
- If I am wrong, I have a question . . . If the church would have to
- either hier and/or compensate the above individual (should they not
- hire him), would the church (i.e. Catholic churches) also then have
- to allow for women to be priests? I know I'm deviating from the above
- hypothetical situation, but I think this argument is in direct correlation
- to the above.
-
- allen
-