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Imagine a day when your church cannot refuse to hire a person to lead your congregation's

ministry for expectant mothers on the basis of that person's pro-choice agenda, or a day when

a staff member at your church cannot be disciplined for encouraging others to have an abortion.

If your church is in New York State,

that day has come. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs Senate Bill 660 recently. It specifies that

an employer shall not discriminate nor take retaliatory personnel action against employees

with respect to their beliefs and choices regarding abortion.

The bill makes no exceptions for religious organizations.

The Alliance Defending Freedom states that the bill requires all employers,

including churches, religious schools, faith-based pregnancy care centers, and religious

non-profits to disavow their beliefs about abortion,

contraception, and sexual morality by forcing them to hire and employ those who refuse to abide by the organization's statements of faith.

As a result, faith-based hospitals in New York State cannot require future or existing employees

to abide by their pro-life commitment, nor can faith-based schools or businesses, nor can churches.

What do we do when two versions of discrimination collide? Pro-choice advocates believe that pro-life

employers discriminate against them by refusing to hire pro-choice employees. They ask you to imagine

being told by a pro-life CEO that you cannot work at his engineering firm because you believe

abortion should be the decision of the mother rather

than the government. By contrast, pro-life advocates believe that the state of New York

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