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The New York Times has the second in its series of articles on how religious organizations, including, potentially, hospitals and universities, are exempt from employment laws that govern secular groups. That means, basically, they can stop unionization drives, fire employees whose health care bills may prove expensive or force out people who campaign against discrimination.

But judges also have applied the exception to dismiss cases filed by
the press secretary at a Roman Catholic church, a writer for The
Christian Science Monitor, administrators at religious colleges, the
disgruntled beneficiaries of a Lutheran pension fund, the overseer of
the kosher kitchen at a Jewish nursing home and a co-founder of Focus
on the Family, run by the conservative religious leader James C.
Dobson. Court files show that some of these people were surprised to
learn that their work had been considered a “core expression of
religious belief” by their employer.

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(See my post from yesterday on this subject here.)