If only because I love the title, here is state Sen. Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr., telling us what we should know about the recent Supreme Court decision to prohibit the government from restricting who religious groups may choose as their pastor.
The full text (the bold is his):
No
newspaper, nor any media source with the exception of the New York Post
newspaper, published the defeat suffered by the administration of
President Barack Obama at the hands of the Supreme Court.
You
my dear reader, should know that the Supreme Court voted unanimously;
with nine (9) votes in favor and zero (0) against, that the federal
Government cannot impose on any religious group or on any church who
they choose as its Pastor.
This argument started when the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hossana Tabor,
in the State of Michigan decided to dismiss a teacher in its school and
the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took the case
before the courts to show that the Church had committed discrimination
when they dismissed its teacher.
The
case went before the Supreme Court of the nation, composed of nine
judges, who all unanimously, something rarely seen, decided that the
Federal Government cannot impose on churches who they hire or who they
fire as their pastors, leaders or officers.
Mr.
Douglas Laycock, an attorney from The Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty, who defended this small congregation from Michigan before the
Supreme Court of the nation stated: "This is a tremendous victory for
freedom of religion in this nation. The Supreme Court unanimously
confirmed the right of churches to select their ministers and religious
leaders without the intervention of the Government.”
Mr.
Kevin Seamus Hasson, Esquire, a former Director of the Becket Fund
said, "This decision of the Supreme Court is a total rejection of the
radical, anti-religious agenda of the Obama Administration.”
When
the President’s administration took the case to Court, the Federal
Department of Justice under the direction of Eric Holder, stated that the first amendment of the Constitution is irrelevant regarding the ability of the churches to choose and dismiss their pastors and leaders. In
other words, they want to dictate to churches, how to choose their
leaders and that the churches had to be politically correct. My friends,
the Obama Administration wanted to tell the churches that sex, sexual
preference or religious beliefs could not disqualify a person from being a pastor or a religious leader in a congregation.
Thank
God that all is not lost! The Supreme Court of the nation that is
frequently divided five votes to four, on this occasion, came together
and in a unanimous vote, gave us Christians and believers a tremendous
victory by demonstrating to the Federal Administration and the whole
world, that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our God, has never
abandoned us and will never abandon us as long as there are men and
women that do not bend their knees to Baal.
I am Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz, and this is what you should know.
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