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Religion Doesn’t Always Work for Mammon

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Ruben Sanchez: Religion Clause recently informed us of a court ruling that states that the United Postal Service (USPS) does not need to accommodate a Seventh Day Adventist employee’s request to have every Saturday off. The 8th Circuit held that if Saturday leave were granted, such a demand, made under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, would impose an undue hardship on the company, violate its collective bargaining agreement, or challenge its seniority system.” Continue Reading →

Stay Classy, Catholics!

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Mary Valle: Thank G-d Benjamin Weiner discusses the Catholic Church’s “playing” of the “Jew” today at Religion Dispatches: Catholics are daring to don the “shroud” of the “victim” while Pontifigate continues to swirl. Catholics comparing their “suffering” (because other people are daring to look into their crimes?) to that of Jews (untold) is problematic on so many levels, but let’s just start with numbers. There are fewer Jews in the world than there are Catholics in Venezuela. It’s like comparing Hershey’s Kisses to Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews. Continue Reading →