Federal contractor guidelines permit antidiscrimination violations under sincere-belief claims
Evidence
By now the Department of Labor had issued guidelines for federal contractors that said it’s quite all right to violate antidiscrimination law against certain groups as long as they can claim they do so on account of their sincerely held religious beliefs. In July 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions followed up with his own Religious Liberty Task Force, highlighting the Trump/Pence administration’s true priorities. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 948
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Religious-liberty jurisprudence asymmetrically weighs believers’ burden against outsiders’ harm — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 950; National security exceptions legally override anti-discrimination protections for Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 564; Guilt from prejudice-standards violation occurs only in people committed to nonprejudiced values — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2104 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Authentic Muslim identity can be deployed to license anti-Muslim positions
#exemplifies(0.78) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 562 - National security exceptions legally override anti-discrimination protections for Muslims
#complicates(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 564 - Guilt from prejudice-standards violation occurs only in people committed to nonprejudiced values
#qualifies(0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2104