Both houses of Congress have voted over the past month or two to block the EEOC lawsuit now underway against a Massachusetts unit of the religious group over its policy requiring workers to speak English on the job. But the House leadership has nonetheless promised bilingualism advocates that the proposal will be kept out of a final bill. (John Fund, “Mi Casa, Sue Casa”, OpinionJournal.com, Nov. 19). For more details about the Framingham, Mass., controversy, see PoL, May 3; earlier coverage of the controversy on Overlawyered is here and here. More: Bader, Morrissey, ScrappleFace; & welcome Michelle Malkin readers.
Salvation Army English-at-work suit, cont’d
Both houses of Congress have voted over the past month or two to block the EEOC lawsuit now underway against a Massachusetts unit of the religious group over its policy requiring workers to speak English on the job. But the House leadership has nonetheless promised bilingualism advocates that the proposal will be kept out of […]
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You can have multiculturalism or freedom, but not both. In a country where every ethnic group has a lobby able to bend Congress’ ear (with one big notable exception), what we’re beginning to see is forced wealth transfers from one group to the other, on top of the older formula of rich to poor. The individualism-favoring models of the traditional West crumble in the face of new and powerful ethnic voting blocks that seek the advancement of their own group, and damn the rest.
[…] by the First Amendment, and less time suing the Salvation Army for requiring employees to speak English (a lawsuit far more harmful than the EEOC’s silly lawsuit against […]