The Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations to Staff on a Religious Basis
Publisher: The Center for Public Justice
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780936456041
First sentence: In the ongoing debate over the faith-based initiative to expand the role of community-serving religious groups, opponents claim that religious charities, when accepting funding from the government to provide services to distressed communities and the poor, have thereby forfeited their freedom to employ staff of like-minded faith.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: The faith-based initiative and the controversy over religious staffing; title: Religious staffing : legislation and the Constitution; title: Religious staffing where a nondiscrimination clause is embedded in the federal program legislation; title: The religious staffing freedom where federal funds pass through state and local governments; title: Religious staffing : the policy justifications; title: Recommendations and precautions; title: Appendixes.; title: Selected resources; title: Key congressional and executive actions; title: Charitable choice provisions for the TANF Program; title: Charitable choice regulations for the TANF Program (excerpts); title: Charitable choice regulations for SAMHSA Programs (excerpts); title: Executive Order 13279, Equal Protection of the Laws; title: Department of Justice Equal Treatment Regulations (excerpts); title: White House policy statement on religious staffing; title: Ten affirmations on religious staffing; title: About the authors