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SUPREME COURT RULES THAT RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS NOT GOVERNED BY ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS
(Friday Church News Notes, July 17, 2020, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) -
The following is excerpted from “Supreme Court Hands Major Victory to Christian Schools,” Christian Headlines,
July 8, 2020: “The U.S. Supreme Court handed private religious schools a major victory Wednesday, broadening
the so-called ministerial exception and ruling they can hire and fire employees without being governed by anti-
discrimination laws. At issue were teachers at two separate Catholic schools who sued after their contracts were
not renewed for reasons the schools said were related to performance. One teacher, though, alleged age
discrimination, and the other alleged she was released because she asked for time off for a medical procedure.
Both sued. The ministerial exception is a legal doctrine that allows religious institutions to hire and fire employees
without being governed by anti-discrimination laws. The U.S. Ninth Court of Appeals sided with the teachers,
ruling they were covered by anti-discrimination because they weren’t ministers and had no ministerial background.
But the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, said the schools were not bound by non-discrimination laws. Justice
Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. The ruling could impact future cases related to sexual orientation and
gender identity, allowing Christian schools to dismiss--for example--a teacher who comes out as LGBT. The
ministerial exception, Alito ruled, is broad. An employer doesn’t have to wear the title ‘minister’ to be exempted
from non-discrimination laws, Alito wrote. ‘What matters, at bottom, is what an employee does,’ he wrote. ...
Joining Alito in the majority were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh,
Neil Gorsuch, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. ...
‘Today is a huge win for religious schools of all faith traditions,’ said Eric Rassbach, vice president and senior counsel
at [the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty]. ‘The last thing government officials should do is decide who is authorized
to teach Catholicism to Catholics or Judaism to Jews. We are glad the Court has resoundingly reaffirmed that
churches and synagogues, not government, control who teaches kids about God.’”
HEAD OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS FOUNDATION SAYS THERE IS MORE SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY THAN IN AMERICA’S POLICE FORCES (Friday Church News Notes, July 17, 2020, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Frederick Douglass Foundation Chairman,”
Just the News, July 7, 2020: “During an interview on the ‘John Solomon Reports’ podcast, Kevin McGary, the
chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California, questioned the claim that systemic racism prevails
among police when so many minorities populate law enforcement’s ranks. Instead, he said that the description of
systemic racism could be applied to the Democratic Party, which he said ‘started slavery and segregation and to
this very day they actually encourage the black genocide of black babies.’ He also said that ‘all of their upper
echelon, meaning in the House and the Senate, are white, and has been for decades, many decades, probably
forever.’ ... Discussing the late founder of Planned Parenthood, McGary said that Margaret Sanger’s ‘racial hatred
towards blacks is unparalleled’ and he said that ‘her organization specifically targets to this very day black babies’
through its abortion programs. ... Regarding the key question that will characterize this year’s election, he remarked,
‘The question is: Do you want the ideal of America, the free, the righteous, the just-type America or do you want a
new sort of reimagined America that embraces something that is anathema to our Constitution, that would be
Marxism.’”
DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN CALLS FOR CHANGING NAME OF THE PARTY BECAUSE OF ITS RACIST HISTORY
(Friday Church News Notes, July 17, 2020, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following
is excerpted from “Dem. Ga. State Rep: Disband and Change Name of Democratic Party,” CNSNews, July 6, 2020:
“‘If racist relics of the past must come down, shouldn’t we start with the Democrat Party?’ Democrat Georgia State
Rep. Vernon Jones asks, introducing his video recalling his party’s dubious past regarding issues of racial equality.
‘If the Democrats are looking to eradicate everything with a racist history, when will my party confront and apologize
for its own?’ Rep. Jones wrote Friday in a Twitter post of his video, in which he denounces the hypocrisy of
Democrats supporting the unlawful destruction of statues and monuments while refusing to erase their own ties to
slavery, segregation and Democrat Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. ‘What I see happening from the
Democrats and the Left: banding together, going throughout this country unlawfully tearing down statues and
removing monuments and changing the name of streets and buildings because they feel it’s associated with racism
and bigotry and the Confederacy. But, here’s what they’re not touching and not banning at all or changing the name:
the Democratic Party.’ ... ‘Join me and others. Let’s challenge the Democrat Party, to have at their national
convention, the number one platform issue that they will disband and change the Democratic Party.’”
BLACK LIVES MATTER LEADERS PRAY TO ALLAH FOR STRENGTH NOT TO KILL WHITE PEOPLE AND PRESENT A FIVE-
YEAR PLAN FOR COMPLETE ABOLITION OF POLICE AND ELIMINATION OF MILITARY BASES ABROAD (Friday Church
News Notes, July 17, 2020, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted
from “Black Lives Matter Leader Toronto,” Gateway Pundit, July 6, 2020: “Old social media posts written by Black
Lives Matter co-founder Toronto Yusra Khogali are making the rounds this week. Yusra Khogali in 2016 wrote ‘white
people are a genetic defect of blackness’ in a since-deleted Facebook post. ‘Whiteness is not humxness,’ Khogali
wrote in a Facebook post. ‘in fact, white skin is sub-humxn.’ ... Khogali also claimed, ‘melanin directly communicates
with cosmic energy.’ In a separate Twitter post, Khogali tweeted, ‘Plz Allah give me the strength to not cuss/kill
these men and white folks out here today.’” The following is excerpted from “Black Lives Matter Philadelphia,” Fox
News, July 8, 2020: “The Philadelphia arm of the Black Lives Matter movement has called for the ‘complete abolition’
of the police department in five years as well as the scrapping of military bases abroad. ... And according to BLM
Philadelphia organizer and activist YahNé Ndgo, the chapter has developed a five-year plan to do just that. ‘One of
the things that we are demanding over five years is the complete abolition. We don’t want to see any police in our
community,’ Ndgo told Fox News in an interview Tuesday. ... She pointed out that ‘there are over 800 U.S. military
bases around the world,’ in addition to the Pentagon's AFRICOM program, ‘which puts military bases in almost every
country on the African continent.’ (According to Pentagon maps published by The Intercept in February, there appear
to be U.S. bases on 29 of the 54 countries that make up Africa.) Those bases, she said, should be defunded.
‘(Defunding) these particular programs would provide massive amounts of resources for the communities in the
United States, and that would mitigate most of the problems that create the so-called problem of crime,’ Ngdo said.”
BLACK LIVES MATTER MARXIST PROPAGANDA IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Friday Church News Notes, July 17, 2020,
www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Black Lives Matter,” The
Federalist, July 8, 2020: “New York City is one of many school systems in the United States set to roll out Black
Lives Matter (BLM)-themed lesson plans this fall. According to the NYC Department of Education, teachers will delve
into ‘systemic racism,’ police brutality, and white privilege in their classrooms. North Carolina’s largest school system
in Wake County launched a website this summer that provides BLM lessons for teachers to use in classrooms and for
parents to use at home. ... Encouraging people to identify and condemn racism is an undeniably laudable undertaking
by these school administrators. That’s not what’s really happening, however. By bringing BLM into the classroom,
activist educators are allowing the most radically divisive movement in modern American history to warp children’s
worldviews. Wake County’s BLM teaching resource is dressed up as a legitimate civics education resource, complete
with tips for fostering civil discourse and a section on teaching historical facts about America’s civil rights movement.
But closer inspection reveals it to be a deliberate Trojan Horse conceived to incubate, amplify, and channel the
movement’s attitudes for political ends. ... Splashed across the homepage of the Wake County School System’s
website is BLM founder Patrisse Cullors. It is puzzling that a self-proclaimed ‘trained Marxist,’ such as Cullors, would
be a role model for the school system’s anti-hatred, anti-oppression curriculum. Do these school administrators
realize that Karl Marx’s road to utopia led to millions of deaths at the hands of tyrants? ... Cullors is a vocal anti-
Israel activist and close ally of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.”
