, which is representing the mission: “From July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, the mission provided a total of 30,167 nights of shelter to 881 different adults and 3,592 nights of shelter for children.
Its Good News Cafe provides free meals three times a day to the public and shelter guests; the mission served 141,629 free meals in that same timeframe. Additionally, the mission’s New Life Recovery Program helps people recover from drug and alcohol addictions and homelessness, and its health clinics offer free or reduced-cost services.”
It does all of this quite explicitly as part and parcel of its religious practices, which suffuse and inform all the operations of the shelter, which itself is devoted to evangelizingBut the mission insists that as part of its ministry, its own employees must abide by its religious values, including monogamy. If the mission were run by a mosque, nobody would demand that it hire Jews or that it serve bacon for breakfast.
The Washington judges here are willfully ignoring or twisting U.S. Supreme Court precedent. In 1952, the nation’s high court inruled that churches have the “power to decide for [themselves], free from state interference, matters of [internal] government as well as those of faith and doctrine.” Under numerous sets of circumstances, the U.S. Supreme Court has further bolstered the rights of faith organizations to hire or grant membership to only adherents inBoy Scouts of Am. v.
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