The nation’s top agency tasked with monitoring, enhancing and making recommendations on civil rights policies released a controversial new report on 7 September 2016 proclaiming that religious exemptions can hamper citizens’ civil rights. “Religious exemptions to the protections of civil rights based upon classifications such as race, color, national origin, sex, disability status, sexual orientation, and gender identity, when they are permissible, significantly infringe upon these civil rights,” the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ report concluded. While the document, titled, “Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Nondiscrimination Principles with Civil Liberties,” …
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