salon.com - 2/5/2009
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Some elements on the right have found something new to complain about in the stimulus: They're criticizing one specific provision in the bill, which they say discriminates against religion, and they're hopping mad about it. The rhetoric on the subject isn't exactly moderate, either -- the ...
washingtonindependent.com - 2/5/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
This amendment to the economic stimulus bill passed
by the House and now being considered by the...
Senate, submitted by conservative icon-in-the-making Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), was breathtakingly bold. The gist , from Sen. DeMint’s Website: o ...
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It’s All Part of My Stimulus Fantasy
online.wsj.com - 2/5/2009
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It's not 'anti-Christian'
Political Animal —
... on public school campuses," said the Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. [...] "It's almost a restatement of what the Constitution requires so there's nothing novel in what the House did in its restriction," said Christopher Anders, senior legislative counsel to the ACLU. "For 37 years, the law of the land is that the government can't pay for buildings that are used for religious purposes." The provision in the bill is just the standard legal language , reflecting nearly four decades of law. All of the on-campus religious ...
Get Thee to a Monastery
Shakesville —
... the two. I'm all in favor of the Religious Right and the rest of the faith-based community having a say in what goes into the stimulus package; their rights of citizenship aren't limited by their religious choices -- as opposed to the limits they wish to impose on those of us who are gay. But when it comes to putting out either stupidity or willful ignorance, I suggest they take a lesson from religious history. It would do both them and us a lot of good. HT to War Room. Cross-posted from Bark Bark Woof Woof.
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