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Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Under established case law, this Title VII exception applies only to those institutions whose “purpose and character are primarily religious.”</span><a href="http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/foia/letters/2007/religious_organization_exception_dec_28_2007.html#fn1" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><sup class="" style="">(1)</sup></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> That determination is to be based on “[a]ll significant religious and secular characteristics.” </span><a href="http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/foia/letters/2007/religious_organization_exception_dec_28_2007.html#fn2" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><sup class="" style="">(2)</sup></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"
class=""> Although no one factor is dispositive, significant factors that courts have considered to determine whether an employer is a religious organization for purposes of Title VII include: whether the entity is not for profit, whether its day-to-day operations are religious (e.g., are the services the entity performs, the product it produces, or the educational curriculum it provides directed toward propagation of the religion?); whether the entity's articles of incorporation or other pertinent documents state a religious purpose; whether it is owned, affiliated with or financially supported by a formally religious entity such as a church or other religious organization; whether a formally religious entity participates in the management, for instance by having representatives on the board of trustees; whether the entity holds itself out to the public as secular or sectarian; whether the entity regularly includes prayer or other forms of worship
in its activities; whether it includes religious instruction in its curriculum, to the extent it is an educational institution; and whether its membership is made up of coreligionists.</span><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Title VII is employment law, but it applies generally.</span></span></div><div class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""> </div><div class="" style="">Ron Force<br class="" style="">Moscow Idaho USA </div><div
class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:58 AM, Sunil <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com> wrote:<br class="" style=""> </font> </div> <br class="" style=""><br class="" style=""> <div class="" style=""><div id="yiv4860734013" class="" style=""><style class="" style="">#yiv4860734013 #yiv4860734013 --
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#yiv4860734013 </style><div class="" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style=""><span class="" style="">No. See B(1) below, emphasis added.<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">9.56.040: EXCEPTIONS:</span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" name="s894073" class="" style="" href=""></a><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://www.sterlingcodifiers.com/codebook/getBookData.php?chapter_id=82509#894073" style=""><img style="border-style:none;" src="http://www.sterlingcodifiers.com/codebook/images/url.gif" alt="link" class=""></a><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:?subject=Coeur%20d%27Alene%20Code%20Regulations&body=Below%20is%20a%20link%20to%20the%20City%20code%20which%20contains%20the%20information%20you%20requested.%0D%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.sterlingcodifiers.com%2Fcodebook%2Findex.php%3Fbook_id%3D603%26section_id%3D894073" target="_blank"
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A. Notwithstanding any other provision herein, nothing in this chapter
is intended to alter or abridge other rights, protections, or privileges
secured under state and/or federal law. This chapter shall be construed
and applied in a manner consistent with first amendment jurisprudence
regarding the freedom of speech and exercise of religion.<br clear="none" class="" style="">
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B.<b class="" style=""> This chapter does not apply to:<br clear="none" class="" style="">
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1. Religious corporations</b>, associations, educational institutions, or societies.<br clear="none" class="" style="">
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2. An expressive association whose employment of a person protected by
this chapter would significantly burden the association's rights of
expressive association under <u class="" style="">Boy Scouts Of America v. Dale</u>, 530 U.S. 640 (2000).<br clear="none" class="" style="">
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3. The United States government, any of its departments or agencies, or
any corporation wholly owned by it; or the state of Idaho or any of its
departments, agencies, or political subdivisions, other than the city of
Coeur d'Alene.<br clear="none" class="" style="">
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C. This chapter shall not apply: 1) to the rental of a housing
accommodation in a building which contains housing accommodations for
not more than two (2) families living independently of each other, if
the lessor or a member of his family resides in one of the housing
accommodations, or 2) to the rental of a room or rooms in a
single-family residential housing accommodation by an individual if he
or a member of his family resides therein. (Ord. 3466, 2013)<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div class="" id="yiv4860734013yqtfd94248" style=""><hr id="yiv4860734013stopSpelling" class="" style="">From: thansen@moscow.com<br clear="none" class="" style="">Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:51:27 -0700<br clear="none" class="" style="">To: janesta@gmail.com<br clear="none" class="" style="">CC: vision2020@moscow.com<br clear="none" class="" style="">Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Otter seeks full panel review of gay marriage ruling<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style="">The Hitching Post claims to be a religious entity. </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Yet, it is a for-profit business (so claims the Cd'A City Council). As such the Hitching Post is bound to, and must obey, local laws
(city code in this case) . . . including a Coeur d'Alene city code that stipulates that a business cannot refuse service based on sexual orientation.<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div class="" style=""><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="" class=""><font color="#000000" class="" style="">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class=""> </span></div><div class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">Tom Hansen</span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">Moscow,
Idaho</span></div></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">- John Lennon</span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class=""> </span></div></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">On Oct 22, 2014, at 8:22 AM, Janesta <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:janesta@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:janesta@gmail.com"
onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=janesta@gmail.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;" class="" style="">janesta@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><blockquote class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style=""><div class="" style="">Butch needs to give it a rest.<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div>The Hitching Post is a private business and should have the freedom and right to serve whomever they want. There is a BOOMING business in Arizona for "clearing houses" for business which same gender friendly. Perhaps someone should start one in Coeur d' Alene<br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style="">On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr" class="" style=""><<a
rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=thansen@moscow.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;" class="" style="">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none" class="" style=""><blockquote class="" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><span class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style=""><div class="" style="">Courtesy of today's (October 22, 2014) Spokesman-Review.</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">-------------------------------------</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><h1 style="clear:both;line-height:1.2;font-size:28px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17);" class="">Otter
seeks full panel review of gay marriage ruling</h1><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter wants a larger group of judges to reconsider the recent decision that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. “I will continue defending Idahoans’ self-determination and the will of Idaho voters who decided that traditional marriage is a core principle of our society,” Otter said.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">The governor on Tuesday announced that he would file a petition seeking a review at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by an 11-judge panel. A three-judge panel made the earlier decision ruling that Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Otter and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden earlier requested that the 9th Circuit assign a full 11-judge panel to hear Idaho’s case, rather than a three-judge panel.
That request was denied. Wasden didn’t join with Otter in Tuesday’s petition. </span></div><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">However, his spokesman, Todd Dvorak, said Wasden plans to file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming weeks.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">Deborah Ferguson, attorney for the four Idaho couples who successfully sued to overturn Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban, said, “If necessary, we will continue to defend the District Court and 9th Circuit decision.”</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">Otter, in a news release, warned of “increased religious strife” because “unaccountable judges,” not the “democratic process,” were making the call on gay marriage.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">“One of the key arguments
against the Idaho Constitution’s defense of traditional marriage has been that redefining it to include same-sex couples would not harm anyone. But the Hitching Post example shows the fallacy of that position,” he said.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">The Hitching Post wedding chapel in Coeur d’Alene has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Coeur d’Alene, saying the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance would force its owners to perform marriages that they object to on religious grounds. That prompted a fundamentalist Christian group in Mississippi to claim that the city of Coeur d’Alene has threatened to arrest the two ordained ministers who own the chapel – but there was no such threat.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">The city has asked that the lawsuit be withdrawn; the chapel recently filed to become a religious
corporation, which would exempt it from the city ordinance.</span></div><div style="overflow:visible;" class=""><span style="" class="">Otter is in the midst of campaigning for a third term; his two leading opponents, Democrat A.J. Balukoff and Libertarian John Bujak, oppose continuing Idaho’s court fight against same-sex marriage, which became legal in Idaho last week.</span></div></div><div class="" style="">-------------------------------------<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style=""><span style="" class="">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div class="" style=""><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style=""
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