Archive for March 29th, 2011
Judge Halts Implementation of Wisconsin Union Law
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Illinois Discrimination Case Raises Questions About Religion and the Workplace
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011From the same people who scream when you say Christmas!
By Doug McKelway
Published March 29, 2011| FoxNews.com
Is it a case of legitimate discrimination? Or a Justice Department out of control? Those are two of the questions surrounding the case of Safoorah Khan, a 29-year-old math teacher and devout Muslim who, until December of 2007, taught at the MacArthur Middle School in Berkeley, Ill.
In mid-August of that year, Khan notified her employer that she wanted three weeks of unpaid leave in December to attend the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
It happened to fall that year just prior to her students’ final exams and the school district said no, leading Khan to resign. She took her case to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which ruled in her favor and referred the case to the Department of Justice.
Last December, DOJ filed suit against the Berkeley, Ill., School Board in federal court in Chicago, claiming it violated Title Seven of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The act prohibits an employer from discriminating on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin or religion.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez said in a recent interview that Khan’s request to attend the Hajj was a “profoundly personal request by a person of faith.”
But former Bush-era DOJ Civil Rights Division lawyer Hans von Spakovsky disagrees.
Read more at Fox News
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Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Thank you for your service.
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic.” — Richard Nixon from his book, “No More Vietnams”
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives and Senate passed resolutions declaring March 30 as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. We could not agree more and thank them for their service.
Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of those servicemembers who did not return on March 30, 1973.
Yet we know this is little tribute for the tremendous sacrifice you made at home and abroad during those turbulent years and the years after.
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Medal to honor Vietnam Vets reintroduced in House.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011Democrat Bob Filner, of the 51st district of California, has introduced H.R. 540, the “In Memory Medal for Forgotten Veterans Act.”
The medal, to be known as the “Jesus (Chuchi) Salgado Medal,” to be designed and issued by the Secretary of Defense to honor each veteran of the Armed Forces who served in the Vietnam war or who died as a result of service in the war–as determined by the Secretary of Defense–and whose name is not eligible for placement on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington.
The medal is named after Sgt. Salgado of California who is given credit for getting the act introduced in 2005 to the 109th Congress.
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NEW STATE LAW WILL FORCE HUMANIST UNIVERSITIES TO ‘SEE THE ERRORS OF THEIR WAYS’
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011The Arizona Senate approved legislation that will protect the rights of college students to live out their faith without fear of reprisals, censorship, or punishment. The bill previously passed in the House and now goes to Gov. Jan Brewer for signing.
“Students who have a strong moral or religious belief about an issue (shouldn’t) get kicked out of their program or be denied their degree or given bad grades simply because of their religious beliefs,” said Deborah Sheasby, legal counsel at the Center for Arizona Policy.
“University students should not be forced to make the choice between getting an education and following their religious beliefs, and HB 2565 ensures that for Arizona students.”
Christian students across the nation are routinely belittled, cursed and threatened with expulsion for their biblical beliefs. Julea Ward was kicked out of the graduate counseling program at Eastern Michigan University for refusing to “see the error or her ways,” as she was told by the administration.
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