Show notes:
In the first segment, our panelists discuss OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) regulations and requirements being treated as a Title VII Issue (the prohibition of employment discrimination based on race, color religion, sex, and national origin).
In the second segment of the show, we look at the SEC’s (Securities and Exchange Commission) advice to faith-based leaders regarding financial fraud targeting. Fraudsters exploit the tendency to trust individuals who share similar beliefs and values, posing as a part of a group they intend to cheat, infiltrating both large and small religious communities. Can your church community escape this type of targeting?
In the third segment, our focus turns to the court case, Ramirez v. Collier. John Ramirez, a Texas death-row inmate, brought a lawsuit asking that he be permitted to have his pastor present at his execution and that his pastor be allowed to pray audibly and touch him while he is being executed. Does Texas’s decision to allow Ramirez’s pastor to enter the execution chamber but not to lay hands on the parishioner as he dies, sing, pray, or read scripture violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment or the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act?
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About the Show: Faith & Politics is a show dedicated to discussing issues surrounding the intersection of Church, State and politics and the examination of whether you are allowing your faith to shape your politics or your politics starting to shape your faith. What do you do when God and government come face to face?
Panelists: Nia Johnson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Duke Law School and Health Policy Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University; Lawrence Parrish, Former Senior Counsel, United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Jo St. George, General Counsel and Chief Equity Officer at FHG Media Enterprises, LLC.; and André Wang, General Counsel and Director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the North Pacific Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
About Us: North American Division Public Affairs & Religious Liberty (PARL) is a ministry dedicated to proclaiming and defending the God-given gift of religious freedom which is integral to our identity as Seventh-day Adventist Christians. Learn more about PARL at www.religiousliberty.info.
Panelists
Nia Johnson
Lawrence Parrish
Jo St. George
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