Request For Review & Reconsideration Of June 29, 2007 Office Of Legal Counsel Memorandum Re: Application Of The Religious Freedom Restoration Act To The Award Of A Grant Pursuant To The Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Act

This document dated August 20, 2015 is a letter signed by 130 non-profit human and social service organizations requesting that the White House direct the U.S. Attorney General to reconsider a 2007 interpretation of whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act permits faith-based federal grantees to impose religious criteria when hiring employees to deliver the grant-funded services. The 2007 interpretation generally permitted faith-based organizations to impose religious criteria on such hires. The organizations signing the letter requesting reconsideration include several faith-based organizations. The signatories said allowing grantees to impose religious criteria amounted to federal support . . .