The Los Angeles Times reports: "One of the main jobs at the Justice Department is enforcing the nation's civil rights laws. So when a nonprofit group was accused of employment discrimination last year in New York, the department moved swiftly to intervene — but not on the side one might expect. The Salvation Army was accused in a lawsuit of imposing a new religious litmus test on employees hired with millions of dollars in public funds. When employees complained that they were being required to embrace Jesus Christ to keep their jobs, the Justice Department's civil rights division took the side of the Salvation Army."
A few years ago I worked at a homeless shelter operated by the Salvation Army. Employees were required to sign a contract agreeing to refrain from engaging in 'immoral behavior' on or off the job. It was also strongly hinted to me that being 'out' was not okay at work. I signed it, then went on with being immoral off the job and out at work. Others wouldn't sign it and didn't get the job. Once a year a group of chefs, limo services and other companies donate their services and throw a 'prom' for the homeless kids. If a homeless kid showed up in drag (either way), or if they showed up with a same sex date, they were kicked out of the prom. These were my experiences with the Salvation Army: they do impose a religious litmus test on employees. If they think it is more important to keep boys out of dresses than to feed them, that's their business. But there is no reason at all they should do so with public funds. I support any sort of bigotry a person might want to practice on their own dime, just not with my tax dollars.
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