Bishops support Biden’s racial equity orders related to housing, prisons
Seen in this composite photo are Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. (CNS composite; photos by Bob Roller and Paul Haring)
By Catholic News Service • Posted February 2, 2021
WASHINGTON The chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees welcomed recent executive actions by President Joe Biden to address racial equity in housing and the use of private prisons by the federal government.
Activists and supporters block the street outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Oct. 8, 2019, as it hears arguments in three major employment discrimination cases on whether federal civil rights law prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sex covers gay and transgender employees. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters) Jan. 26, 2021 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON President Joe Biden s wide-ranging executive order to extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people exceeds the U.S. Supreme Court s June 2020 ruling on the issue in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops committees. In so doing, they said, the Jan. 20 order has implications for religious freedom.
Mormons address racism, misinformation in new handbook sections Follow Us
Question of the Day By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times - Monday, December 21, 2020
The nation’s largest Mormon denomination has announced new handbook sections that condemn misinformation and decry racism, addressing a thorny topic that has embroiled faiths across the U.S. this year.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said it has added a section on prejudice to its General Handbook, a spiritual guide for the world’s 16 million LDS followers.
“[Prejudice] is not consistent with the revealed word of God,” the new section reads, in part.