…and the floodgates start to open.

From the Boston Globe:

Gordon College leader joins request for exemption to hiring rule

The president of a small Christian college north of Boston was among 14 religious leaders who sent a letter to the White House this week requesting a religious exemption to a planned order barring federal contractors from discriminating in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation.

“Without a robust religious exemption … this expansion of hiring rights will come at an unreasonable cost to the common good, national unity and religious freedom,” reads the letter, signed by Gordon College president D. Michael Lindsay as well as the chief executive of Catholic Charities USA, the executive editor of Christianity Today, prominent evangelical pastor Rick Warren, and other Christian leaders.

It’s not about tolerance. It’s about making people second-class citizens.

And the President may have been reaching out when he asked Rick Warren to give the invocation at his first inaugural, but there are some people you just do not reach out to.

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