Monday, March 31, 2014

The Salvation Army's White-Flag Surrender to Secularism

For more than a decade, while receiving federal funds, the Salvation Army allegedly has been forcing the hungry to sit through sermons in order to receive the food they desperately need, and forcing their employees to be held to fundamentalist religious standards, standards that have come into question in the past when an Australian media relations director for the Salvation Army implied that gays and lesbians deserve death because that punishment is supposedly in line with scripture.

MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-arel/the-salvation-armys-white-flag-surrender-to-secularism_b_5003298.html

See also...

Salvation Army Promises, After $450,000 Settlement, to Eliminate Religious Discrimination in Taxpayer-Funded Work
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/03/24/salvation-army-promises-after-450000-settlement-to-eliminate-religious-discrimination-in-taxpayer-funded-work/

Army Surrenders: Religious Charity Gives Up On Fight To Discriminate
https://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/army-surrenders-religious-charity-gives-up-on-fight-to-discriminate