Can you not hire someone because they don't believe in the same religion as you?

[TommyVercetti]

I am guessing hiring for priests, pastor and related service people there is an exception. But what about jobs whose function really has no relation to the place you are working. Like, if a church wants to hire a maintainence person, can they only hire people who are Christian? I was under the impression that you could not do so, until I came upon this website for a Christian university link . It says

ACU is affiliated with the fellowship of the Church of Christ. All applicants must be professing Christians and willing to support the Christian mission and purpose of Abilene Christian University while employed by the university.

So I searched for job discrimination on Yahoo and came to this website link . It says

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;

How can that university not hire someone who is not Christian?

 

[Alienwho]

If it's a private university they can do whatever the hell they want.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Why do you care?

 

[SherEPunjab]

I own my own corporation (privately held by me), and while i would *off the record* prefer to hire people of my kind, that would be discrimination. it is illegal to the best of my knowledge.

 

[n0cmonkey]

We can hire only US born presidents. Doesnt that violate this law?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
We can hire only US born presidents. Doesnt that violate this law?

Constitutional, it superceeds Title 7 in this case. That said, yes, the church example would be illegal.

 

[rufruf44]

As for the church example, there're way around it though. and if everything else fails, they can always add in the requirement of attending masses every week as part of the job description (call it moral enlightenment or whatever). That will be quite a deterent for non-christian to apply.