The National Defense Authorization Act has some discrimination buried in it

Lawmakers are in the final stages of approving the NDAA — which has to pass — but by doing so, they’re approving an amendment that applies  the private employer religious exemptions of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to religious organizations receiving any federal contract or grant – which could include …

Discrimination doesn’t pay

Firms that discriminate in their hiring are more likely to go out of business within six years than are their fair-minded competitors, a new study says.

Putting Rep. Gohmert (R-Texas) on your prayer list

Father of three daughters Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, opposes two bills that would encourage women to go into science because, he says… “Washington is always a step behind…we want to take time from our $19 trillion in debt to demand that the National Science Foundation discriminate based on gender.” Yow. Read those bills again, Rep. Gohmert. And …

The so-called “pink tax” is discriminatory.

And we can stop it. I wrote this for Mother Courant.

And so it goes…

Back in August, I wrote about Mercedeh Pourmoghadam and Massoud Kalkorhan, who own Lighthouse Bakery in lovely Mystic, Conn. They were saying that town officials were treating them differently, and they suspected it was because they are of Iranian descent. So meetings were held. Lawyers were consulted. And this is what happened. I wrote it …

Discrimination lives on and it lives in real estate

I wrote this for Mother Courant.

Bobby Jindal shows his stripes

Earlier this month, Gov. Jindal’s Executive Order BJ 15-8 essentially cleared the path to discriminate against the LGBTQ crowd, just ‘cos. This order seeks to accomplish what an earlier Louisiana state bill addressing so-called “religious freedom” tried to do, but it was rejected by the state legislators. Read what the National Organization for Women says …

Don’t sign it, Asa

The Arkansas legislature has passed to Gov. Asa Hutchinson a “religious freedom” law similar to the one that has caused the uproar in Indiana and elsewhere. Gov. Hutchinson is a 1972 graduate of Bob Jones University, the ultra-conservative institution of higher learning whose policies (and graduates) would be funny if they weren’t so very sad. …

Dear Indiana Christians (a letter from Jesus)

In light of the “religious freedom” nonsense that has gone on in Indiana (and rock on to the people who are protesting this nonsense), I really wish I’d written this letter to Indiana, from Jesus, at John Pavlovitz: Stuff That Needs to Be Said: I’ve seen what’s been going on there lately. Actually, I’ve been watching you …

So while we’re on the issue of “religious freedom”…

(Which of late has been a legal notion best interepreted as “screw you, my religion is better than yours“): (With a side order of “My religion tells me to hate you.”) (To which the only response is: “Baby Jesus is crying, yahoos.”) The Republican-controlled Indiana House of Representatives has passed a bill that would, as …