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There is the key difference between marketing and evangelism. Marketing gives people what they want. Evangelism gives people what they need whether they want it or not! It is at the very core of the Christian faith and thus perhaps is at the core of every Christian organization, the belief that all people everywhere need to believe in Jesus Christ as the only means of salvation from sin and restoration to a relationship with God. Therefore it would go against that core belief to promote another faith. Christians will not market the Muslim faith, or the Buddhist faith, or any other faith, because they believe that there is a need that can only be filled with the Christ of the Christian faith. I am getting very weary of extreme liberals attempting to say that Christians don’t have a right to their belief systems, to work in their workplace because of their belief systems or anything else, but then they clearly promote that everyone else does.I don’t stand there and tell you that you don’t have a right to your belief system! I don’t tell you that you don’t have a right to work in any secular position in the nonprofit sector. I don’t demand that you believe in Jesus! You can choose not to believe! Why are the secular nonprofits demanding that I sign off on their extreme pro-liberal anti-biblical postions and agendas in order to get a job in the secular nonprofit sector? Do not say they don’t do this, because I have just reviewed over 400 positions in the past month throughout the secular nonprofit sector from around the USA that clearly state: “Persons of diversity and persons that willingly promote diversity are welcome to apply.” Let me tell you how I read this: What this is meaning is that if I do not willingly and intentionally promote this organizations liberal interpretation of what diversity means, I am not welcome to apply. Now, I think all of these organizations that advertise that extreme liberal line should also be banned from receiving all government funds because they are intentionally practicing anti-Christian and anti-biblical world-view discrimination. And if I apply and I am turned down for the jobs because I have 19 year executive level leadership management experience working for a faith-based nonprofit organization and I receive denial letter after denial letter which reads “We have hired someone that more closely represents the skills and experience of this position.” How do I run to the media and cry foul? Who is listening to my story of discrimination? Not two weeks ago I stood at a nonprofit organizations counter. There was a secretary at the counter and the secretary tells me that their Human Relations Department and management thought that I was too overqualified for the position that I was applying for. In other words they were meaning, I am too old because I am 49 years old! And, though I have all those years of executive level experience recruiting thousands of volunteers and raising millions of dollars, that they would rather hire someone that would have to learn on their dollar than hire me and pay me what I am worth!Who is listening to that age discrimination lawsuit walking in their door and seeing a multi-million dollar check being deposited into someone’s bank account? A statement by any employee relating that Human Relations or a manager was saying that someone is “overqualified” has been tested in courts and every organization that made those comments paid the piper on that! It is hard to prove! But Oh how much that happens every single day! And organizations settle out of court now on that over and over! I did not press this with the organization, but how stupid! This just proved to me that the nonprofit I was in desperately needed someone that does know what they are doing so they won’t be the lawsuit victim of their own stupid comments like that!

Fundamentalist Christian organizations also won’t hire certain Christians if they are the wrong kind of Christian; for example being Catholic doesn’t count.

It is this kind of religious bigotry that gives further (often justified) bias against Christianity. If this volunteer was doing a good job as a translator (free services) why on earth would he suddenly be a poor employee if he were hired and paid a salary? If this organization is receiving tax payers’ monies (which include Islam dollars) I think they should have their IRS status revoked. It is true that Christian organizations have hiring bias all the time, and as long as they are not accepting federal funds, it is perfectly legal. If this NGO was accepting federal funds, they should hire without religious prejuidice, and hire the best person possible for the job. (Who knows, perhaps if they hired this translator and were kind to him, maybe he’d consider becoming a Christian. You never know.)Karen

I don’t believe the issue is the organization’s predilection to hire its own but the fact that it accepts government dollars. In essence, this means that the tax-payer is financing discrimination. That can’t be. The organization is free to hire whomever they choose, but only on their own dime! If the job that Ali was denied is financed through public dollars than his denial is illegal. This isn’t a liberal or conservative issue but a constitutional one based on the separation clause of the First Amendment.