Justice Department Is Asked to Withdraw Memo on Religious Charities’ Hiring
September 18, 2009
About 60 nonprofit groups concerned with civil rights, labor, health, and education have signed a letter asking Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to withdraw a memo written during the Bush administration allowing religious charities that receive federal money to discriminate in hiring, says The Washington Post.
The groups include Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the Anti-Defamation League, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the NAACP. Spokesmen for the Justice Department and the White House counsel did not comment to the newspaper about the letter.
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