{"id":10281,"date":"2011-07-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/12\/critics-push-obama-to-change-faith-based-hiring-rules\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:00:00","slug":"critics-push-obama-to-change-faith-based-hiring-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/12\/critics-push-obama-to-change-faith-based-hiring-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics Push Obama To Change Faith-Based Hiring Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, July 2011 (RNS): A group of clergy and lawmakers is trying to overturn a nearly decade-old policy that allows faith-based organizations that receive federal funds to hire and fire employees on<br \/>the basis of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say President Obama has reneged on a campaign promise to repeal the policy, which was put into place by President Bush in 2002. &#8220;It is shocking that we would even be having a debate about whether basic civil rights practices should apply to programs run with federal dollars,&#8221; said Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va. &#8220;There is just no justification for sponsors of government-funded programs to tell job applicants, `We don&#8217;t hire your kind.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Scott has sponsored legislation to repeal the policy. But advocates for the change say the most effective route would be for Obama to issue a new executive order to overturn Bush&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Bush introduced the policy to advance what he deemed a more faith-friendly federal approach toward charitable organizations that receive federal contracts for social services. Previously, groups that<br \/>received government money were forbidden to consider religion in their employment decisions.<\/p>\n<p>More liberal religious leaders, who typically toe a strict line on church-state separation, said the lingering Bush order undermines a century of progress in civil rights. &#8220;Tax dollars should not be used to discriminate,&#8221; said Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service WASHINGTON, July 2011 (RNS): A group of clergy and lawmakers is trying to overturn a nearly decade-old,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}