No Jews Need Apply

World Relief's Chicago office is taking a stand. They're a Christian organization and from now on, it'll be Christian through and through.

No Jews need apply for openings. Seek employment amongst your own kind.

The evangelicals have a bug up their religious arses when it comes to Jews anyway. They'd like to convert them to Christianity and save their souls. What better way than to exert a bit of financial pressure?

Want a job helping those in need? Think you'd like to counsel refugees from war-torn lands like Darfur? Provide legal counsel to a recent immigrant? Accept Jesus Christ as your saviour and you're on the payroll.

Such a bright picture of salvation is marred by the piles of U.S. Government tax dollars that are dropped into World Relief's coffers. They are a legitimate charity doing the Lord's work and as such they are given aid money to use in their most worthy missions.

It's legal for them to discriminate against Jews and Muslims because World Relief is a church organization. Couldn't have some imam suing the Vatican for the right to be a Catholic priest, after all. Wouldn't make sense.

Legal or not, employees of World Relief are expressing their outrage by walking away from the group. So many have left that the mental health services offered at the Chicago branch were forced to shut down. Candace Embling, director of the Chicago office, was kicked to the curb for complaining about the discrimination.

How very Christ-like.

Non-Christians must sign a loyalty oath and swear to follow Jesus, an option that's been offered to those in hard-to-replace positions. Too many Jews and not enough Christians going in for psychiatry and the law?

Now that the "Christian Only" policy has been made public, World Relief is concerned about a drop in donations. It's not only a case of losing Jewish donations, but Christians who are offended by the hard-line tactic might seek to put their money elsewhere.

Is World Relief a church, or a charity? Those who have found help may not really care. After enduring hardship and fear, what would it be to turn a deaf ear to a proselytizing counselor, nodding and agreeing for the sake of getting settled in America, where you can practice any religion that suits.