OBAMA SPENDING BILL STIMULATES ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY

Dear Supporter of Traditional Values,

Buried in the rubble of President Obama’s $1 trillion monstrous pork/stimulus plan is a section that bans Christian Bible studies, worship services and other religious activities from many public education buildings!

All of this is found in the “greening” (supposedly to help the environment) of our nation’s school section of the bill and to the tune of at least of $3,500,000,000.  The greening funds are to be used for the “modernization, renovation or repair” of higher education facilities, but prohibit the repairs where religious activities or services may be conducted.  

The economic crisis is being used as a pretext to curb religious liberty at institutions of higher learning. 

The ultimate impact will be to drive religious activities out of public education altogether. If higher education institutions worry about not getting part of this federal grab bag, they’ll simply eject religious activities from their campuses so they can easily get the money.

Andrea Lafferty, TVC Executive Director is leading the fight to address this aggressive anti-Christian section in the bill.  We have met with staff, organized conference calls and spent days alerting key Senators and staff to this dangerous section.  We are on Capitol Hill fighting for you.

We must not let them take away our precious rights which are currently in danger.   America’s current leadership seems to have lost their moral compass.

We know these are difficult financial times. But as you can see, it is vital that we remain here at the nation’s Capitol.  Your religious freedoms are in grave jeopardy and we remain vigilant in protecting them for you and your family.  

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This is just the beginning of the aggressive anti-Christian discrimination that we will face over the next four years.  As you know, Traditional Values Coalition has led the fight over Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and so-called hate crimes bill for the last decade.  When the hate crimes vote took place last Congress, we were able--with your help--to apply enough pressure that some Members of Congress actually switched their votes.   And, it was when TVC gave greater visibility to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) definition of the utterly bizarre 30 Sexual Orientations that the ENDA was derailed in the Congress.  So we pray we can also defeat this.

The language in the Obama Stimulus bill (S.336, Section 803, pg 164) says:

No funds awarded under this section may be used for …

(C) modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities—

(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school  or department of divinity; or

(ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission; or

(D) construction of new facilities.

As you can see this prohibits any private or religious school from receiving any funding under this bill, in addition to removing religious expression in public buildings.

This should be called the ACLU Full Employment Act since it will be a boon for their anti-Christian litigation.   The ACLU will work to sniff out Christian activities such as Bible studies or religious services.   Unless the schools banish religious activity on campus, the ACLU will surely sue these institutions for daring to allow these newly “greened” buildings to be used for religious purposes.

If this aggressive anti-Christian bigotry is allowed to remain in the bill, I predict it will soon be in the K-12 sections of this and other school funding bills.  That will mean that churches can no longer meet in schools on Sundays, as well as, boy scouts and student Bible study groups.

This new administration and its secularist allies in Congress don’t accept the First Amendment’s protections of religious activity even as they cite the First Amendment to defend all sorts of bizarre and offensive speech and art.

The entire package should be rejected by the Senate. It is pork, not stimulus – and most Americans understand this.

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Your voice at the Capitol,
Rev. Lou Sheldon

PS- What does $1 trillion equal?

$1 bills stacked one-third of the way to the moon or 68,000 miles into space