Salvation Army Settles Lawsuit on Religious Discrimination

[cbayer]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/nyregion/salvation-army-settles-lawsuit-on-religious-discrimination.html?_r=0

By SHARON OTTERMAN
MARCH 18, 2014

The Salvation Army on Tuesday settled a decade-old lawsuit that charged it with engaging in religious discrimination by requiring its government-funded social service employees to reveal their beliefs and to agree to act in accordance with the Christian gospel.

As part of the settlement, approved by a federal judge in Manhattan, the Salvation Army will distribute to its New York employees who work in programs that receive government financing a document stating that they need not adhere to the group’s religious principles while doing their jobs, nor may they be asked about their religious beliefs.

The Salvation Army, which is both an evangelical church and a charitable organization, will also pay $450,000 to settle claims by two former employees, Anne Lown and Margaret Geissman, that they were pushed out of their jobs in retaliation for their objections to the group’s policies.

The group, which administers millions of dollars in government contracts to run homeless shelters, soup kitchens, after-school programs and day care centers in the New York area, did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement.

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[hrmjustin]

1. I refuse to give to the Salvation Army.

[cbayer]

2. I have been intensely ambivalent about them for a very long time.

In some communities, they have provided the sole option for some people and at the local level they can do some really great things.

But some of their overall policies, based on their religious agenda, are really objectionable.

[hrmjustin]

3. I refuse because they play hardball with the NYC over the foster kids they take care of.

They use them as leverage with the city all the time when thry don't like legislation or new policies. They did it over lgbt issues. They are very bigoted.