http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/01/13/little-rock-proposes-to-outsource-jobs-that-discriminate-on-basis-of-religion Comments On: Little Rock proposes to outsource jobs that discriminate on basis of religion by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 18 May 2013 07:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Rick Siegfried]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:54:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by jtsanda]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:36:52 -0600 Arkansas Times
Yes, these kinds of things ARE why unbelievers are on the rise. It's tough to argue for Christianity when the Bible is used as a weapon - in this case economic.

Or when Christianity is the only religion (that I know of) where the predominant theology is that belief, not action or behavior, is the ticket to salvation. Had Hitler made a deathbed conversion with his last breath, the evangelical view is that he'd now be in heaven and looking down on Ghandi burning in hell. It's hard to sell that concept to a thinking person. I chalk it up to Paul's brilliant marketing, which worked back then but is killing the church now, even after he's been promoted to godhood, aka Jesus Jr.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:05:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
This is the easiest way to continue avoiding the issue. That one lawsuit that shuts this down will make it really easy for Stodola and Carpenter to say, "Well see, we tried..."
Posted by Dee Blakley]]> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:06:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by jtsanda]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:08:47 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Atlas999]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:55:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
@jtsanda - Some famous guy once said "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." If you take public money, you have to follow public law - which prohibits discriminatory hiring. URM is free to spend privately-contributed money as it sees fit - but this is tax money, taken from Christians and non-Christians alike.
Posted by MTHead]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:07:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Larry Burton]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:07:30 -0600 Arkansas Times
Rita?
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:33:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:57:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
nonprofit CHRISTIAN organization. NOT with public tax money.
Posted by Hackett]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:03:17 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by TX-Travler]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:01:32 -0600 Arkansas Times
Who needs them when there are so many support organizations - groups of Jews, Atheists, Unitarians, Buddhists, Hindu, Muslims, etc. - who are obviously much more capable and ready to step up to the task? Besides, Atheists have a much longer and stronger history of starting hospitals and doing good work than Christians could ever claim.

In any event, who would want anyone to run an entity like this one based on restrictive principals like these anyway:

- Professional and personal life reflects integrity, personal responsibility and character.
- A servant’s heart and compassion for those who are lost, and are hurting yet not an enabler.

To heck with these closed-minded, incompetent people.
Posted by JR10]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:00:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by jtsanda]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:44:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NB Lives In Pangburn Trailer Home]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:32:38 -0600 Arkansas Times Now move on. Nothing to see here.
NOT, and I say that as a resident and voter of an area which has had more than its share of doofuses (doofi?) elected to public office. (I plead not quilty to the charge of voting for a doofus.)
Unless I missed something, Union Rescue Mission deemed the old building too far gone to continue to use, so they moved. City bought the old building, spent big bucks and a lot of time to renovate it and now they want to pay Union Rescue Mission to run it -- in an evangelical Christian manner if URM so chooses, which they do.
But I say, even before the "evangelical Christian manner" reared its head, didn't the whole deal stink from a purely economic angle to all but the URM?
Yep, you folks have doofuses (doofi?) too. Sigh. Guess we all do.
Posted by Doigotta]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:32:29 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:19:30 -0600 Arkansas Times
YMB it is called Murphy's Law as enforced by graduates of The Peter Principle Academy. That is, they practice the universal apitude for ineptitude.
Posted by TX-Travler]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:37:31 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:43:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Let the CoC do it.
Let Union Rescue do it.
Appoint a board for the tech pipe dream.
I'm speechless.
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:30:06 -0600 Arkansas Times