An internal Salvation Army document reveals that the Bush Administration is working with the Salvation Army to make it easier for government funded religious groups to discriminate in the hiring of gay people. In return, the Salvation Army will help promote Bush’s “faith-based” social services initiative, which will channel government funds to religious charities. The administration’s attempt to establish such regulations permitting discrimination comes in the wake of an increasing number of local jurisdictions adopting laws prohibiting religious groups from discriminating against gays in hiring, job promotion and benefits.
See Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, July 9, 2001