My question involves civil rights in the State of: IL
My question involves civil rights in the State of: IL
You need to actually ask a question, but.... churches are not state actors, and the state will avoid involving itself in canon law. For example, if a church's canon law provides that women should not be permitted to be ministers, that's going to be lawful even though a non-religious employer could not have an equivalent rule discriminating against female employees.
Churches also have the right, in many circumstances, to discriminate on the base of religion in employment and other areas. But rather than writing a treatise on the first amendment, we need more details as to what you are after.
religious organizations are given near limitless discretion to select their membership and their leadership, however they cannot take actions against your civil rights (they cannot kidnap you or steal from you, or sacrifice you in a volcano)
Of course, so many people post here alleging a violation of some "right" or anther that os not really a "right." For all we know the OP may be angry because he was not allowed to express a contrary opinion at church or some church-related function and he thinks it might be a violation of the 1st Amendment. Who knows?
Here is the deal with what I was asking about. Our worship leader removed a lady who played an instrument for over 12 years at our church because she thinks her wheelchair is a "distraction" to our worship. This lady has always played in front of the first pew until we moved into a new sanctuary where there is wheelchair accessibility but all of a sudden the worship leader does not want her on the platform. I am disturbed that she can do this to her just because of her being in a wheelchair. It does not seem legal. It is definately not morally right!