Posted on 11/27/2018 3:11:14 PM PST by lowbridge
After Houston rejected similar measures three years ago, churches in Austin may be forced to hire homosexual and transgender pastors and ministers due to a city ordinance.
Ground zero in the turmoil because of non-discrimination reforms that fail to protect religious and moral objections to sinful lifestyles has shifted to Austin.
The city’s leaders passed an employment discrimination ordinance much like 2015’s “HERO” measure in Houston, prohibiting decisions against hiring based on sexual orientation and gender identity in addition to other reasons.
The ordinance provides no limit to enforcement against churches that decide against hiring of homosexuals and transsexuals on moral and religious grounds.
Not even pastoral and other leadership positions at churches are excluded from possible city oversight and regulatory management in the capital of Texas.
Dozens of Texas churches that are members of the U.S. Pastor Council (USPC) are represented by a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month, following the Houston pattern of possibly a long battle in the courts.
“Every church in Austin that refuses to hire practicing homosexuals as clergy or church employees is violating city law and subject to civil penalties and liability,” the filing, U.S. Pastor Council v. Austin, reads.
“The City of Austin’s failure to exempt church hiring decisions . . . violates the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Constitution and the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”
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It’s so sad to see how far these commies have progressed in their take down of of our Republic.
If we had continued to teach our children about our Constitution, instead of stopping teaching it back in the 1960’s/1970’s, the citizenry would have easily recognized that the concept of Separation of Church and State isn’t even in the Constitution.
It was a slick maneuver enacted decades ago, designed as a way for the Federal Government to usurp the power of free exercise of religion from the People. Thank the ACLU and a corrupt Supreme Court Justice for that usurpation.
If a churche is a 501c3 organizations, is Christ really the head of their church? Or is the Federal Government?
The Feds (I know this is a local Austin ordinance, but eventually it will be the Feds) will command the churches to do anything they wish, under threat of losing their tax-status.
Sorry, cleaned up:
If a church is a 501c3 organization, is Christ really the head of their church? Or is the Federal Government?
The Feds (I know this is a local Austin ordinance, but eventually it will be the Feds) will command the churches to do anything they wish, under threat of losing their tax-status.
A Klansman on the Supreme Court didn’t like city school buses taking kids to Catholic schools.
>>A Klansman on the Supreme Court didn’t like city school buses taking kids to Catholic schools.
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Yes. Most people today don’t realize before that SC ruling, there wasn’t the slightest suspicion that teaching Christianity in public schools was wrong — because it wasn’t.
Our Constitution was founded on the principles of Judeo-Christian law (e.g. The Ten Commandments). These days, people are so uninformed, they ridicule people like Roy Moore, who only wanted to return to our founding principles. Up until the 1960’s, posting the Ten Commandments, Bible reading, and Christian prayer was the NORM.
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