http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfuJAmCF3UI&feature=player_embedded
In a 90-minute portion of a hearing on workplace protection, a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee heard an unmistakable message from a Seventh-day Adventist representative: the future of religious liberty in the workplace is in lawmakers' hands, and that legislation is needed to protect the rights of Sabbathkeepers and other religiously observant workers.
"These are my daughters," James Standish, legislative affairs director in the General Conference Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department, told the February 12 Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee hearing, holding aloft an enlarged photo of his children. "If my daughters grow up and they want to follow the faith of their mother, their two grandmothers, and their four great grandmothers, how are they going to be treated in the workplace? Are they going to be marginalized? Are they going to be harassed? Are they going to be fired when they could easily be accommodated? ... The answer to that question is largely in your hands."
Source: http://emmanuelchgohts.org/article.php?id=37
P.S. 3 observations about this article:
- This took place in February of 2008.
- James Standish has since then moved on to work in the U.S. Congress as Executive Director of The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom?
- And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!... Matthew 24:19.
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