Faith Czar Towey defends job discrimination by religious charities.
White House "Faith Czar" James Towey has been traveling the nation assuring religious groups that the Bush administration will protect their right to receive tax funding while engaging in employment discrimination. In August, Towey met with leaders of Catholic Charities of Maine, telling the group that the...

Veil row: Muslim woman's <i>niqab</i> tests UK.
Byline: Rashmee Roshan Lall LONDON: Multi-cultural Britain's increasingly fierce and fractious debate about immigrant integration and religious tolerance reached a plateau of sorts on Friday with a British Indian Muslim teaching assistant at the centre of the row over the niqab losing her legal case for discrimination...

Employment discrimination: court upholds nurse's right to sue.
Following her termination from a staff nurse position a nurse filed a complex lawsuit against her former employer in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana for disability and religious discrimination. No Disability Discrimination The nurse, after fourteen years service at the...

'Faith-based' initiative undercuts constitution, Lynn tells house panel.
President George W. Bush's "faith-based" initiative threatens the constitutional separation of church and state by ushering in a new era of government-supported religion, Americans United Executive Director Barry W. Lynn told a congressional subcommittee March 23. Testifying before the House Sub-committee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and...

Gay rights bills move to floor of House.
Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard SALEM - An Oregon House panel took the historic step Tuesday of sending to the floor bills that legally recognize domestic partnership for same-sex couples and ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Despite the emotionally charged debate in Oregon dating...

Visible through the veil: the regulation of Islam in American law.
The controversy over the French government's recent ban on the Muslim veil (voile) or headscarf (foulard) in public schools garnered many headlines within France and in the international media. Stating that there is "something aggressive" about children wearing the headscarf to school, French President Jacques Chirac called not only...

Breaking down the wall.
Byline: The Register-Guard President Bush's faith-based funding initiative was a well-intentioned but fundamentally flawed idea when he asked Congress to approve it soon after he occupied the White House two years ago. After an initial burst of enthusiasm, many Democrats and Republicans in Congress came...

An unconscionable rule.
Byline: The Register-Guard Widely seen as having earned a shot at being judged the worst president in U.S. history, George W. Bush has never paid much attention to public opinion. Or legal opinion. Or expert opinion. Or scientific opinion. So it comes as no surprise...

State attempts to define religion: the ramifications of applying mandatory prescription contraceptive coverage statutes to religious employers.
I. INTRODUCTION There has been much attention given of late to the issue of whether the law should require private employers to cover prescription contraceptives under their health care plans. Although the exclusion of prescription contraceptive coverage by plans that offer coverage for other prescription medication was...

The ethics of immigration: an exchange.
William W. Chip Until very recently, serious conversation about immigration was all but banished from mainstream American discourse. This consensus of silence, imposed by opinion makers who found the topic distasteful or inconvenient, was undone by a number of recent events--including the sudden rise of immigration as...