
By Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies Nearly 110,000 comments on a seemingly obscure proposed change to the federal contracting regulations were recently received by the U.S. Department…

Religious organizations often do things that others disagree with or may even consider harmful. But civil society – the zone of religious as well as secular non-governmental organizations – is the place of voluntary mixing and matching. In this lecture from Dr. Stanley Carlson-Thies as part of the Religious Freedom Institute’s FORIS lecture series, Carlson-Thies says that when these organizations are allowed to be distinctive, then job seekers can find a compatible workplace, and then students, patients, and customers can find a place best suited for their particular needs and convictions. Not all difference is harmful discrimination; much is positive pluralism.