Should religious organizations be allowed to discriminate if they receive public funding

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This question seems to be asked frequently of late. Here’s an article about yet another case.

I’m appalled that an organization that considers itself a proponent of morality, in this case the Catholic Church, thinks that discrimination of any kind is not only acceptable but should be protected. I’m at a loss to understand it.

For any theists who support this, imo, nonsense…can you please explain why you consider it appropriate behavior?

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I think this is utterly awful.

I sometimes volunteer in soup kitchens (which are often religious), and lately I only work at the Sikh Langar, as they have a religious obligation to feed everyone regardless of who they are.

I stopped volunteering at a Baptist church soup kitchen because they turn away gay couples (and their children) from food. I have seen similar things at other church soup kitchens as well, and it seems that the Sikhs are the only ones who don’t do this.

Their rationale for turning away gay couples are as follows:

  1. Being gay contributed to their circumstances, so feeding them is like enabling an alcoholic.
  2. We are helping their children, because if they can’t feed their children, then the children may have to go into social services, which would improve their circumstances.
  3. We can’t expose the other people (and their children) who are here to eat, because gay people are pedophiles and a danger to the children who are already here.
  4. Feeding these gay people will establish a precedent that it’s OK to be gay, and this means that the children here now will be vulnerable to get recruited into homosexuality in the future.

And so on.

If you guys think that I’m bullshitting you, then see below:

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Entire books have been written about this.

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Those damn homosexuals. I knew they were fucking assholes. LOL… But not as bad as the Religious.,

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Really? Twenty characters

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Sorry, Kevin, I couldn’t resist. I think I heard the line from Jimmy Carr.

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Religious organizations shouldn’t receive any public funding, ever.

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