The Biden administration is hailing new rules aimed at protecting the religious liberty of clients of faith-based charities, but critics say the proposed changes would obliterate protections for religious charities that receive federal funds.
The Biden administration is hailing proposed rules aimed at protecting the religious liberty of clients of faith-based charities, but critics say the changes would obliterate protections for the thousands of religious charities that receive federal funds.
“There is no need for this proposed rule-making,” said Rachel N. Morrison, who directs the HHS Accountability Project for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington think tank. Under the proposals, religious charity clients must be given written notice of nondiscrimination policies, including a right to refuse “to attend or participate in a religious practice” as part of a charity’s services.
“The rationale they give is … very gratuitous,” Ms. Morrison said. The agencies “cite no community or population that is not receiving services or programs or how this proposal would increase that in any way.”
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