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Race Cases Don't Have a Prayer With Feds

Justice targeting religious discrimination, snubbing civil rights

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 14, 2007 7:13 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Justice Department has set race discrimination cases on the back burner to pursue claims by religious groups that their rights have been violated, the Times reports. Bush administration attorneys have intervened spiritedly in protecting churches and synagogues from zoning committees, for instance, but slashed...   Read full story »

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