ADL Concerned President Obama's Faith-Based Initiative Could Lead to Religious Discrimination

ADL anxious that the President's faith-based action lacks built-in safeguards this access misses the befalling for antibacterial advice and presidential administration adjoin application bigotry by faith-based admission recipients. Especially in the ambience of your eyes of an expanded, better-funded faith-based initiative, we are acutely afflicted by the anticipation that aborigine money will acceptable armamentarium religious bigotry in application decisions involving the humans who bear faith-based amusing services

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 18, 2009 -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today bidding affair that President Barack Obama's February 5 controlling adjustment on faith-based partnerships lacks 'critical built-in safeguards' to anticipate religious bigotry and exceptionable proselytizing.

In a letter to the President, the League aswell criticized the proposed case-by-case analysis by the Justice Department, calling it bereft because "this access misses the befalling for antibacterial advice and presidential administration adjoin application bigotry by faith-based admission recipients."

"Especially in the ambience of your eyes of an expanded, better-funded faith-based initiative, we are acutely afflicted by the anticipation that aborigine money will acceptable armamentarium religious bigotry in application decisions involving the humans who bear faith-based amusing services," wrote Glen S. Lewy, ADL National Chair and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.

"During the campaign, you declared that the Bush Administration faith-based action lacked capital safeguards adjoin proselytizing and discrimination. Yet, the abortion to authorize new standards by which the Justice Department will adjudicator whether an alignment is advantaged to an absolution to the religious nondiscrimination laws agency that the old, bare safeguards abide the acknowledged standards."

In its letter ADL apprenticed the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to accede a alternation of safeguards to ensure abounding acquiescence with break of abbey and accompaniment and to accommodate a abounding accounting of the cost of government funds for religious organizations.
   
Editors Note: The abounding argument of the League's letter to President Obama and added advice about the faith-based action is accessible on the League's web website at http://www.adl.org/

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