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Jul 16, 2020 · The Ministerial Exception Allows Racial Discrimination by Religions. 16 Jul 2020. Leslie C. Griffin. Posted in: Civil Rights. The ministerial exception is a First Amendment rule that allows race discrimination cases against religious organizations to be dismissed.
Feb 16, 2021 · Many of us have believed multiracial congregations to be solutions for white racism. But as sociologist Korie Little Edwards’s research demonstrates, even when churches gather racially...
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Jul 30, 2020 · Perhaps the most obvious 20th century examples of explicit systemic racism are South African apartheid and the Jim Crow laws in the U.S. South. That being said, the Church recognizes that systemic racism also occurs through institutions and policies that do not explicitly refer to race yet are racist due to their effects.
Nov 16, 2021 · Volume 37 (January/February 2009) Civil Rights Division Settles Religious Discrimination Suit Against Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. DOJ Settles Suit Alleging Zoning Discrimination By Nashville Against Faith-Based Substance Abuse Program. Indictments in Massachusetts Election-Night Church Arson.
Anti-racism policy. In 2022, the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America adopted this recommendation: The Reformed Church in America shall: Build on the 2009 General Synod declaration that “racism is a sin because it is an offense to God” and declare that the sin of racism is expressed as a policy, behavior, and/or belief against a ...
Jun 5, 2020 · 1. Grieve together. Racism (even the word) evokes all kinds of emotions. Truthfully, nothing I preach or teach about engenders more negative feedback than the topic of racism, but all of us have a basic responsibility to “weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:15).
Apr 2, 2019 · It’s not that every Christian was a foaming-at-the-mouth racist hurling racial slurs and burning crosses on peoples’ lawns. It’s that when they had the opportunity to intervene in everyday ways, they chose complicity over confrontation, and this enabled a larger atmosphere of racial compromise.
