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Did you know that earlier this month, the Obama administration released two documents to help taxpayer-supported schools admit individuals based on the color of their skin? I suppose a better question is, do you care? If you don’t, you should. In 2011, we’re still allowing our government to discriminate against some and prefer others on [...]

The Dearborn Patch today follows up on a report last month by the Detroit News on a federal sex discrimination lawsuit against the city of Dearborn, Michigan filed by a male nurse who was fired from the city’s health department. Nurse John Benitez Jr. was told by his female supervisor not to treat women wearing Muslim [...]

Once again the federal government is harming women and girls in the District of Columbia. Congress is including a ban on allowing DC to use it’s own money to have DC Medicaid cover the cost of an abortion procedure. The passage of this oppressive and discriminatory legislation means that many DC women, girls, and their [...]

On the 21st of February, the European Union Council issued a new statement which essentially reaffirmed their earlier November 2009 conclusions condemning acts of discrimination based on religious beliefs.  Whilst the statement specifically targeted acts of violence against Christians and their places of worship, as well as toward Muslim Pilgrims, the statement clearly attempts to [...]

Big news coming out of New Orleans. Fourteen years ago, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that using racial preferences in college admissions even to achieve “diversity” was unconstitutional. This week, a three-judge panel of the same court ruled racial considerations in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin permissible. (Source) The story [...]

The Center for Equal Opportunity’s Roger Clegg responds to a Salt Lake Tribune editorial in support of racial preferences. The final paragraph of the editorial is most telling: “Utah is largely homogeneous, with white men dominating leadership in all areas. They don’t need protection from programs meant simply to give others an equal chance.” Let’s [...]

JTA reports that in new guidance issued yesterday by the U.S. Department of Education on bullying, DOE made clear that it is returning to its 2004 policy on religious discrimination designed to permit the application of federal civil rights laws to anti-Semitic incidents on campuses, as well as to discrimination against Arab Muslims and Sikhs [...]

Since 9/11, anti-religious extremists on the internet have worked overtime to fill the breach of accurate information about minority religions with disinformation and hate speech. As demonstrated by the article below, the spread of such lies creates unfounded concerns and prejudices in communities. Pittsburgh’s extremists include David S. Touretzky, a researcher at Carnegie [...] Religious [...]

In Vaynberg v. Seton Hall University, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112634 (D NJ, Oct. 21, 2010), a New Jersey federal district court dismissed a religious discrimination claim brought against Seton Hall University by a Jewish student who was dismissed from the school’s doctoral program in physical therapy for failing to maintain a 3.0 GPA. Plaintiff Farakh Vaynberg [...]