The Salvation Army on Tuesday settled a decade-old lawsuit that charged it with engaging in religious discrimination by requiring its government-funded social service employees to reveal their beliefs and to agree to act in accordance with the Christian gospel.

As part of the settlement, approved by a federal judge in Manhattan, the Salvation Army will distribute to its New York employees who work in programs that receive government financing a document stating that they need not adhere to the group’s religious principles while doing their jobs, nor may they be asked about their religious beliefs.

The Salvation Army, which is both an evangelical church and a charitable organization, will also pay $450,000 to settle claims by two former employees, Anne Lown and Margaret Geissman, that they were pushed out of their jobs in retaliation for their objections to the group’s policies...

The lawsuit, filed in 2004 on behalf of 18 former and current employees, also charged that the Salvation Army was proselytizing while delivering services to vulnerable populations, like foster children. Much of the case was dismissed in 2005, and in 2010, another part of the case was settled when several state and city agencies agreed to audit the Salvation Army for two years to make sure it did not cross the church-state line in its delivery of services.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/nyregi...ation.html?_r=0

The money! Christian ministries which take government dollars will find themselves subject to government control. It's a win-win situation for the tolerant and diverse Left. Refuse the money and the Christian voice will be muted. Accept the money and the Church will find the government telling it what policies it must follow.

This whole "separation of church and state" thing is a farce, a hammer designed to silence or control the Christian witness.

You're welcome, Algernonpj, but this may be an Army policy limited to NYC. I don't know. What I do know, however, is that my local Catholic Charities takes at state dollars and possibly Fed money. This sort of story shows they may rue doing that someday.