The Supreme Court ruled that World Vision can require all its employees to practice its particular brand of its particular religion. I have read commentaries that, while this may be legal, it isn't right. But there is a larger lesson to be learned from this decision: namely, why so many American liberals insist that the nation of Israel discriminates against some of its inhabitants on the basis of religion.
Don't worry, I'll tie it all together below the fold.
There is no question that setting a maximum quota (no more than 10% of our employees may be Reformed Fundamentalist Zoroastrian) is discriminatory and illegal in the US. There is also a policy that MINIMUM quotas (at least 10% of our employees must be RFZ) are legal. The intent of the first is to deny minorities opportunities, of the second is to allow minorities opportunities.
There also seems to be a legal distinction between a policy that all our employees must be RFZ and a policy that none of our employees can be RFZ. We don't fault a Jewish High School (Yeshiva) for hiring only Jewish teachers, even if there is an available expert in a particular field who happens to be Christian. And apparently it is legal for a company to refuse to employ someone in any capacity, other than the members of its own formal belief system, despite that position being about as secular and non-religious as possible.
This does not apply to government, military, etc. There is a US Constitutional ban against religious tests for office, and your senator can't insist that she will only employ members of her own faith, or a military officer to insist on his staff all believing exactly as he does. I know that the latter does take place, but it's illegal.
But the hinge of my discussion is that American Christians can't believe that, in a nation publicly calling itself by a particular religion, it would refrain from religious discrimination. It isn't possible, it goes against the laws of the universe, it is imcomprehensible. Of course I refer to Israel.
Israel does not discriminate against its inhabitants (its citizems) who are Muslim, or for that matter Christian, Maronite, Ba'haii, or Zoroastrian. US right-wing Christians would so discriminate, and US liberal Christians cannot believe that any religious group wouldn't so discriminate. I have spoken to many members of the latter group, and they have a fixed belief that such discrimination MUST and HAS and WILL CONTINUE TO take place.
Arab Israelis attend Israel univesities without a maximum quota, they serve in government and the military, they sue (successfully) in the Israeli Supreme Court, but none of this counts because Christianity, as practiced today in the US, is by and large a discriminatory religion.
In 1959, at the age of six, I entered primary school in a small town in New York State. There, among other things, I was informed that anyone who didn't acknowledge Jesus Christ would never get to heaven. "That's not fair," I said. "What about all the people born before Jesus?" My teacher said, "That's the way it is." I saw right then the nature of Christianity in the US in modern times and knew that I could never countenance such an illogical, thoughtless, discriminatory belief.
Don't fill the comments section with bleatings about true Christian brotherhood or how we should love one another, etc. That's just lip service. Remove the beam from your own eyes and see Israel for what it is, and American Christians for what they are, and know the difference between true brotherhood and some-are-more-equal-than-others.