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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 23 February 2001
Vol. 5, Number 13 (#516)
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Action Alerts:
Aleksander Kwasniewski (Warhead), "Solidarity Needed For Polish Anti
-Fascist"
Obituaries:
Khalid Abdul Muhammad: "New Black Panther Party Leader Dies"
Fascism In the News
Burt Herman (AP), "Germany Creates Police Units," 20 Feb 01
Reuters, "German Jews Threaten Suit Over Internet Hate Sites," 19 Feb 01
Nicholas K. Geranios (AP), "Aryan Lawsuit Changes Keenan Family," 18 Feb
01
News On the Religious Tax
AA News, "'Religion Tax' Office Opens As Fringe Groups Poised to Demand
Cash," 20 Feb 01
ACLU, "ACLU Says Bush Initiative Represents Faith-Based Prescription for
Discrimination," 29 Jan 01
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ACTION ALERTS:
Solidarity Needed For Polish Anti-Fascist
Aleksander Kwasniewski (Warhead)
Dear comrades!
We need your solidarity actions with Tomasz Wilkoszewski. He is a militant
anti-fascist from Poland, sentenced in 1996 for 15 years, charged with the
murder of a nazi bastard. This unfortunate accident happened during a
street fight which was a response to non-stop Nazi harassment of Tomasz and
his friends. Till this day it is not known if it was really Tomasz who
killed the nazi or someone else. He needs our support! His appeal was
rejected by the high court and his only chance now is an act of mercy from
the President. Write him urgent letters demanding the release of Tomasz
Wilkoszewski!
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Prezydent RP
Wiejska 10
00-902 Warszawa
Poland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you very much! Send copies of your protest letters to Warhead at the
address above.
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OBITUARIES:
New Black Panther Party Leader Dies
Justin Bachman (AP)
17 Feb 01
MARIETTA, Ga. -- Khalid Abdul Muhammad, a black militant known for harsh
rhetoric about Jews and whites but revered as a heroic revolutionary by his
followers in the New Black Panther Party, died Saturday after a brief
illness.
"Minister and Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad has made his transition to the
ancestors," party spokesman Malik Zulu Shabazz said at a news conference
outside Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where Muhammad had been taken earlier
in the week.
He would not say how the 53-year-old Muhammad died, saying only that it was
of "natural causes." Muhammad, who split his time between New York and
Atlanta, had shown no sign of illness before he was hospitalized Tuesday,
he said.
Citing the wishes of Muhammad's family, the hospital would not release any
information about him, spokeswoman Elaine Morgan said Saturday.
Shabazz was surrounded by some of Muhammad's family and eight party members
wearing black uniforms, combat boots and berets. They chanted "Black
Power!" and "Long live Khalid Muhammad!"
"Our hearts are aching. We are sad but at the same time we are happy
because we know that his place is secure," Shabazz said.
Muhammad had spoken Feb. 10 in New York and attended the NBA All-Star game
last Sunday in Washington, Shabazz said. On Thursday, The New York Times
and Newsday reported that Muhammad had suffered a brain hemorrhage at his
Georgia home.
Muhammad led a "Million Youth March" in New York City in 1998. The rally,
attended by about 6,000 people, ended in a clash between police and
marchers in which dozens were injured.
He organized a second and third "Million Youth March," but the most recent
one drew a crowd of only about 100, police said. Muhammad blamed the "devil
white media" and government officials for the low turnout.
James Muhammad, a spokesman for the Nation of Islam and editor of its The
Final Call newspaper, said the organization mourned Khalid Muhammad and
sent prayers to his family and followers.
"We remember the good that brother Khalid did in helping the honorable
Minister Louis Farrakhan in the rebuilding of the Nation of Islam," James
Muhammad said. "May Allah be pleased with him, and we call on those who
follow him and benefitted from him to double the pace in the struggle for
complete liberation of black people in America and throughout the world."
Some of his critics said Muhammad would be remembered for his divisive
views.
"Khalid Muhammad will be remembered for his anti-Semitism, racism, bigotry
and hate-mongering. This is his legacy," said Myrna Shinbaum, spokeswoman
for the Anti-Defamation League.
In 1981, Muhammad was named one of Louis Farrakhan's top lieutenants in the
Nation of Islam. He served at Nation of Islam mosques in New York and
Atlanta and in 1991 became Farrakhan's personal assistant.
It was Farrakhan who gave him the name Khalid - meaning warrior - but he
was born Harold Moore Jr. in 1948.
In his public speaking engagements, Muhammad quickly became known for
virulent attacks on Jews, homosexuals and whites. Farrakhan ousted him
after a 1993 speech in Union, N.J., in which he referred to Jews as
"bloodsuckers" and urged mob murder of white South Africans.
In April 1994, before a cheering audience, Muhammad denounced Jews as
"honkies."
"I am going to be like a pit bull. That is the way I am going to be against
the Jews. I am going to bite the tail of the honkies," Muhammad said.
He remained unrepentant about his rhetoric.
"I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the
cradle to the grave," he told an Atlanta crowd in 1995.
Shabazz said Muhammad and Farrakhan had mended their rift and that
Farrakhan called several times during the week to check on his condition.
The Rev. Al Sharpton of New York City visited on Thursday, Shabazz said.
"There is no division in the black nation. The Nation of Islam and the New
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense are one," Shabazz said.
Members of the New Black Panther Party call themselves anti-capitalist and
believe in socialism and nationalism among blacks. The organization says it
has 35 chapters, including Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and
Washington.
Muhammad is survived by his wife, three sons and three sisters. Shabazz
would not give their names.
A funeral was set for next Saturday at Mount Olivet Church in Harlem.
Another memorial service will be held later in Atlanta, Shabazz said.
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FASCISM IN THE NEWS:
Germany Creates Police Units
Burt Herman (AP)
20 Feb 01
FORST, Germany -- Plagued by a sharp rise in hate crimes, Germany is
forming special federal police units to counter neo-Nazis and is
considering a program to turn skinheads into informers.
Germany's top law enforcement official on Monday visited a federal police
station in eastern Brandenburg state with one of the new teams. The
government is paying $1.9 million to fund 80 additional officers for the
eastern border region, the largest of several such units recently put in
place across the country.
"We hope to rattle the extreme-right scene in this area," Interior Minister
Otto Schily said, adding that he's talking with other states to broaden the
program.
Earlier this month, Schily said the number of hate attacks rose
dramatically to 13,753 crimes between January 2000 and November, an
increase of 45 percent from the year before.
On Monday, a synagogue in the northern German city of Luebeck was evacuated
after receiving a bomb threat and finding a suspicious briefcase. The
briefcase had wires and a red light but contained no explosive.
In March 1994, Luebeck became the site of the first attack on a Jewish
place of worship in postwar Germany when young neo-Nazis firebombed the
synagogue. That was followed by a May 1995 arson fire that began in the
synagogue's storeroom, prompting police to put constant patrols around the
building.
The new federal police units won't take over regular patrols handled by
state police but will help combat neo-Nazis in their normal area of
responsibility - in train stations and at borders. The officers will also
be available to help in special cases if local police need it.
In the first month the unit has been operating in Forst, on Germany's
border with Poland about 95 miles southeast of Berlin, officers identified
more than 100 members of the extreme right and helped patrol during a
demonstration of the far-right National Democratic Party.
Along with the new officers, Schily also said he was in discussions about a
"dropout program" for neo-Nazis allowing them to leave skinhead gangs and
possibly get leniency in exchange for helping authorities.
State authorities reported 553 far-right attacks on foreigners between and
January of last year and November, including killings, bodily injury and
firebombings - 156 more than during the same period in 1999.
The issue has become more visible since last summer's still-unsolved bomb
attack in Duesseldorf injured a group of recent immigrants from the former
Soviet Union. Despite media speculation at the time that the extreme right
was involved, police have since said they think it "unlikely" the bombing
was a hate crime.
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German Jews Threaten Suit Over Internet Hate Sites
Reuters
19 Feb 01
BERLIN -- Germany's main Jewish organization said Monday it was preparing
to take legal action against Internet firms that host neo-Nazi and far-
right Web sites.
The Central Council for Jews vice president Michel Friedman said the group
was consulting lawyers and would file suit against Internet companies that
give access to Web sites carrying anti-Semitic or racist content banned
under German law.
Friedman said the German government was acting too slowly in applying
strict national laws that ban any material seen to glorify Nazis or the
deeds of the Third Reich.
"We're looking at all (Internet) providers in Germany that provide hate
information on the spot," Friedman told Reuters. "The point is to motivate
the government."
The council estimates that more than 800 hate-related home pages are
already on the web.
Friedman said Germany's Jewish community wanted courts to take a tougher
line against hate sites and pointed to a recent French ruling against
portal Yahoo (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news), which was ordered to block surfers in
France from auctions where Nazi memorabilia are sold.
In response Yahoo earlier this month banned any items that promote or
glorify the Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups, though it is
still fighting the ruling.
There have been previous calls for Germany to follow such a move and
supporters of restrictions welcomed a ruling in December by Germany's
highest civil court that Yahoo was subject to German law since it was
accessible by Germans.
Germany's Bavarian courts have also investigated allegations that a Yahoo
auction site sold copies of Hitler's banned book, "Mein Kamp" within the
country.
The federal Supreme Court has ordered the retrial of an Australian for
denying the World War Two Holocaust on the Internet.
The man, Frederick Toeben, had previously been acquitted of spreading the
so-called "Auschwitz Lie" on the basis that his Web site was run on
computers outside German jurisdiction.
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Aryan Lawsuit Changes Keenan Family
Nicholas K. Geranios (AP)
18 Feb 01
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- In two years, Victoria Keenan went from victim to
victor over the Aryan Nations.
Her lawsuit bankrupted the neo-Nazis, and last week she took possession of
the hate group's 20-acre compound, which housed and trained some of the
nation's most violent racists and anti-Semites.
"We hope to get the evilness out of there and turn it around to something
positive," said Keenan's son, Jason. They said they plan to sell the
compound, perhaps to a human rights organization.
Keenan, 45, and Jason, 21, were chased, shot at and terrorized by Aryan
Nations security guards in 1998. Last year they won a negligence lawsuit in
civil court, getting a $6.3 million judgment against Aryan founder Richard
Butler and his organization.
Life has not been easy for them since.
"There is fear around you all the time and you're watching your back all
the time," Keenan said.
The Keenans still live in the Coeur d'Alene area - she won't say exactly
where - and the lawsuit has made them celebrities.
"Everywhere I go people know me and compliment me and hug me," Keenan said.
The court victory was hailed by many in Idaho as proof that the state's
reputation as a haven for racists is undeserved. But there are those who
support the Aryan Nations' white supremacist philosophy.
"I've gotten some bad responses from people, evil-looking people," said
Keenan. "It's been mentally draining."
The trial last summer drew numerous supporters of Butler to Coeur d'Alene.
The Keenans were reviled on web sites maintained by neo-Nazis.
Last October, Keenan and her husband were trailed in a supermarket parking
lot by a van with Aryan Nations stickers. They asked the driver, who wore
an Aryan Nations cap, what he wanted. "You will see soon," he replied.
The Keenans did not set out to be activists. Victoria Keenan had worked as
a food server and bartender, and lived quietly in a rural area. Jason had
just returned from a stint in the Job Corps when they were attacked.
The mother and son were driving home from a wedding the night of July 1,
1998, when they drove past the Aryan compound in her 1977 Datsun. Something
- a car backfire, a firecracker - made a noise like a gunshot.
Three Aryan Nations security guards, thinking someone had fired at them,
jumped into a pickup and chased them. They fired a rifle repeatedly at the
Keenans, eventually shooting out a tire and forcing their car into a ditch.
One of the guards grabbed Keenan by the hair, jabbed her ribs with a rifle
butt and put a gun to her head. She pleaded for their lives. Then another
car approached. The guards stepped back, gave a "Heil Hitler" salute and
drove off.
Their lawsuit contended Butler, his organization and his second-in-command
were negligent in hiring and training the guards. It was essentially a
personal-injury case, with Butler and his group penalized for hiring ex-
convicts, giving them little training, allowing them to carry weapons and
filling them with rage.
"The Keenans are very heroic people," said Peter Tepley, a lawyer for the
Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center who helped represent
them in the lawsuit. "They stood up against the Aryan Nations and brought
it down."
Jason Keenan recalled the discussions with their local lawyer, Norm Gissel,
about whether to proceed with the lawsuit.
"You have to look at who you are going up against. It was not like taking
on a next door neighbor for slipping on a sidewalk," Jason said. "This is
actually a person who could be considered crazy."
He hoped Idaho history books would record the moment when the Aryan Nations
compound ceased to exist. "This is pretty much a work of history," Jason
said.
The compound contains numerous buildings, including Butler's home, a
bunkhouse, a guard tower and the chapel of Butler's church.
It cost the Keenans $250,000 to buy the compound - Butler's sole asset -
from a U.S. Bankruptcy Court auction. The $95,000 cash the Keenans needed
to complete the purchase was lent to them by the SPLC.
Butler, who founded the Aryan Nations 30 years ago, was in the small room
with the Keenans as the sale was completed Tuesday. The two sides did not
speak or look at each other.
"If he was a true Christian, it seems to me he would apologize to us,"
Victoria said afterward.
Two of the guards who attacked the Keenans were convicted of aggravated
assault and sent to prison, while the third was never caught. One of the
guards has already been released; another soon will be.
"It makes me nervous and scared," Victoria said. "But there are enough
people on our side."
Butler, who moved to northern Idaho from California in 1973 to found his
sect, has vowed to keep preaching from a house in nearby Hayden purchased
for him by a wealthy supporter.
He has announced an unprecedented series of public events this year,
including marches in Coeur d'Alene and two other towns. His annual Aryan
World Congress, which used to draw more than 100 neo-Nazis to Butler's
compound, will be held instead at a park nearby.
Victoria Keenan said it is time for others in northern Idaho to stand up to
the Aryans.
"It's up to Coeur d'Alene and Sandpoint and everybody to make that stand,"
she said. "Don't be afraid."
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NEWS ON THE RELIGIOUS TAX:
'Religion Tax' Office Opens As Fringe Groups Poised to Demand Cash
AA News
20 Feb 01
As President George W. Bush's White House Office of Faith-based and
Community Initiatives opened today, reports proliferated that fringe
religious sects including those affiliated with cultist Rev. Sun Myung
Moon and a project run by the Church of Scientology will apply for public
funds in order to operate social services.
The story leads the afternoon banner on the Drudge Report, and follows
reports earlier in the day from the New York Times and the St. Petersburg
Times. Scientology will reportedly be asking the White House for cash to
fund its drug rehab programs and a literacy outreach. Last week, in
covering the marital split between actor John Travolta, a high profile
Scientology member and wife Nicole Kidman, we mentioned a church-sponsored
program known as Applied Scholastics. The outreach incorporates the
teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. We added that the
church-linked magazine "Freedom" ran a photograph of President George H.
Bush and wife Barbara at the President's Summit for America's Future
flanked by Travolta and Church of Scientology International executive Karen
Hollander.
Bush created his new White Office by Executive Order, and denied that it
would either promote religion in general, or one denominational creed over
another.
"We welcome all religion," said Mr. Bush. "We do not impose any religion."
While the Bush plan is aimed at mainstream denominations, many of which
already receiving government grants and other public funding, the
possibility that less popular, even extremist sects may demand equal access
for their faith-based programs is now emerging as a real possibility -- and
a vexing problem. During the presidential campaign, George W. Bush was
queried by the New York Times over his faith-based partnership program, and
whether, for instance, he would approve of public funding for a Church of
Scientology drug rehab outreach.
"I have a problem with the teachings of Scientology being viewed on the
same par as Judaism or Christianity," Bush replied. "That just happens to
be a personal point of view. But I am interested in results. I am not
focused on the process."
Another potential suitor for the White House office could be the church
operated by Korean cult evangelist Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Moon has been
active on the religious right for nearly two decades. A 1977 congressional
investigation tied Moon's Unification Church to the "Koreagate" scandal
which involved influence buying within the U.S. government. It also
revealed that following the 1961 coup, the Korean Central Intelligence
Agency began subsidizing the Moon organization to "organize and utilize"
the resources of the Unification Church in the U.S. "Moonies" landed key
jobs in Washington, DC think-tanks, and in congressional offices. Moon and
his satellite fronts were also involved with key religious right projects
such as the World Anti-Communist League, and the Korean preacher worked
closely with conservative leaders like direct mail wizard Richard Viguerie.
Now, Moon and his church -- re-christened the Family Federation for World
Peace and Unification USA -- are reportedly making preparations to obtain
funding to promote abstinence programs in schools.
Stories in both the New York and St. Petersburg papers also note that the
Hare Krishna sect has already received "millions of dollars in government
contracts" to operate homeless shelters and halfway houses for parolees
over the last twenty years. The participation by these non-mainstream
religious groups could raise problems for the new White Office, and its
director John DiIulio. The administration has gone to considerable lengths
to assemble a coalition of ecumenical groups, and welcomed Jewish,
Christian and Islamic leaders into photo opportunities with Mr. Bush to
convey a "picture of strength and diversity."
How far will the warm and fuzzy glow of religious cooperation really go?
Already, there are reports of conflict, and potential problems. On February
12, representatives from the Anti-Defamation League met with faith-based
funding czar John DiIulio, and were reportedly told that the White House
would not be providing grants the Nation of Islam, which has a variety of
potential outreaches hungry for subsidies, including a security service
which has won contracts for guarding Chicago housing projects. The ADL has
been at odds with NOI head Louis Farrakhan, and considers the black Islamic
sect to be anti-Semitic.
During his presidential campaign, Bush also expressed doubts concerning the
Nation of Islam, saying "I don't see how we can allow public dollars to
fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message."
* Evidence continues to emerge that some religious groups have every
intention of stepping up their proselytizing efforts, and blending their
doctrinal message into faith-based social programs as the Bush funding
pours in. Times reporter Laurie Goodstein described a halfway house
operated in Philadelphia, Pa. by the International Society for Krishna
Consciousness, where there appears to be a minimal religious presence.
David D. Dobson, executive director for the group's programs in the area,
noted "Being a Krishna organization, in the early days there was a lot of
prejudice and there was pressure to tone down anything religious. We
certainly put in the closet a lot of our religious philosophy." A house
supervisor described the program as "totally secular," and contrasted it
with a Salvation Army program which also took public funds,
"There were chapel services every Sunday," he said, noting that residents
were required to attend devotions and Bible study daily. "They were trying
to get you back to God."
One might ask where any controls and oversight were on the Salvation Army
at the time. Dobson told the paper, though, that thanks to the new White
House funding initiative, he "expects to add Krishna spirituality to his
programs" by hiring clergy and "teaching about the history of non-Western
religions."
Dobson added: "We're not just here to educate and feed people, we see
people as spirit souls. Our goal is to help them spiritually develop."
* Strangely, groups that are already at the public trough but operate what
are described as "secular" programs are raising concerns over the Bush
faith-based initiative. "Lutheran, Catholic and Jewish groups are raising
concerns about potential religious discrimination and coercion, echoing
arguments from civil libertarian quarters," notes a dispatch on the
afternoon Associated Press wire. One example is the "thicket of questions
that we look forward to discussing," according to Diana Avi, vice president
for public policy for United Jewish Communities.
Joanne Negstad, president of Lutheran Services -- a nationwide umbrella for
280 groups -- voiced concerns about religious discrimination in both hiring
and services. "That really bothers us," she told AP.
* Religious and political groups, even the news media, still reflect
confusion over the whole issue of government aid to faith groups. For
decades, public money has been pouring in to the coffers of denominations
which operate a wide range of social services. Groups with religious
affiliation have largely circumvented legal problems, though, by
establishing spin-off, non-profit corporate entities; minimizing or
eliminating an explicit religious message; adhering to anti-discrimination
statutes in issues of hiring; and, at least on the surface, have avoided
using religion as a litmus test for eligibility for those wishing to
receive help.
The 1996 welfare reform act provision sponsored by then-Missouri Senator
John Ashcroft began undermining those few facile protections governing
religious groups that received government funding. The measure made it
easier for churches and other faith-based organizations to compete in
obtaining public money in order to operate social programs without having
to compromise or diminish their "religious character."
* Many religious social programs such as Catholic Charities are already
married to the public treasury. According to Independent Sector, a
coalition of non-profit and philanthropic groups, nearly 90 percent of the
nation's 353,000 churches, synagogues and mosques already operate
"community programs" of some sort. Most are on a modest scale, and only
about 1% receive government funding. That could change, especially if the
Bush initiate proves too tempting, and enforcement of any funding
violations is lax. In defending his program, Bush has said that the money
could not be used for overt religious worshipping or proselytizing, those
seeking help could not be turned away for religious reasons and that
"secular alternatives" must be available.
Critics charge that enforcement of existing anti-discrimination policies is
already lax, and that current funding promotes religion. They also point
out that many of the faith-based groups the Bush initiative is targeting
see their social service outreach as a religious, not secular mission.
"Our primary purpose is evangelizing to win souls," says Dan Taylor of the
Union Rescue Mission in Cumberland, Maryland. All residents of the shelter
must attend evening worship services. "The charitable things we do are
like an aside," adds Taylor. "We not only meet their physical needs, we
meet their spiritual needs. How you could separate one from other I don't
really know."
The pressure is more subtle at a Roman Catholic parish outreach in the
Philadelphia suburb of Wynnewood. There, Rev. Edward Rix says that he
does not see any problem in separating the social and religious activities
of his church. Referring to a clothing drive for the needy, Rix declared:
"It's a service, but it's also a way of letting people know that our church
is here. If they want to come and worship with us, they are invited."
Attitudes about the faith-based initiative may change, though, as
Scientologists, Moonies and others on the fringes of the American religious
landscape step up to the treasury window. Think "faith-based," and most
Americans still conjure an image of a mainstream denomination helping the
homeless by handing out sandwiches, or providing a bunk bed on a cold
night. In fact, many religious outreaches pressure the needy to conform to
a religious doctrine. What happens when other, less popular sects become
involved?
"One of the big issues that people haven't talked about much is that some
very controversial religions could get active in this," warns Philip
Jenkins, the author of "Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in
American History." "Running a faith-based program raises the question,
what faiths are out of bounds?" Jenkins declared. "Either you fund all
faith groups, even groups you radically don't like, or you fund none...
How do you distinguish between a Methodist and a Moonie? The answer is,
you can't."
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ACLU Says Bush Initiative Represents Faith-Based Prescription for
Discrimination ACLU
29 Jan 01
WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Civil Liberties Union today said that
President George Bush's new initiative to give tax dollars to religious
organizations would lead to government-funded discrimination in employment
and services and a dangerous loosening of licensing and standards for
providers of social services.
"This new Bush initiative represents a faith-based prescription for
discrimination," said Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington
National Office. "What the President is proposing today will open the Bob
Jones Universities of the world to receiving federal funds without any
civil rights safeguards."
The ACLU and others, including the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,
say that the Bush faith-based initiative would both violate the separation
of church and state and allow taxpayer funds to be used in several
discriminatory ways. The initiative would allow for taxpayer-funded
discrimination in:
**Employment. Because religious organizations are exempt from many civil
rights laws, they are allowed to discriminate on the basis of their
religious beliefs and teachings about race, religion, sexual orientation,
gender and pregnancy status. Under the Bush initiative, for example, a
Catholic church receiving public funds for literacy programs could fire a
teacher for getting pregnant outside of marriage or an Orthodox Jewish
synagogue that operated a food bank could refuse to hire non-Jews or women.
**Provision of Services. Under the Bush initiative, there are no
restrictions on how religious organizations incorporate their beliefs in
the delivery of social services. These groups would be allowed to decide
who gets priority for services and what services are actually provided. The
ACLU believes that the lack of protections could lead to discrimination
against those who most need help. A Baptist church that is running a local
housing program could, for example, give preference to low-income people in
their own congregation.
The ACLU also said that the Bush initiative would not require that
religious organizations hire trained and licensed counselors and therapists
to deliver social services. In Texas, where then-Governor Bush implemented
many elements of his new federal program, a church-based drug
rehabilitation program argued that drug addiction was a sin, not a disease,
and offered prayer and Bible reading as "treatment."
"Priests, ministers and rabbis are the best people to offer spiritual
guidance that can be helpful to people in need," Murphy said. "But many
individuals faced with drug addiction, mental illness and other problems
need more than spiritual advice. They need people who are trained and
licensed to address their specific physical and psychological needs."
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