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Posted on 02/05/2009 2:09:34 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Republican Sen. Jim DeMint proposed an amendment Thursday to overturn a provision in the stimulus bill that prohibits renovation funding for schools that allow religious worship in their facilities.
BY CRISTINA CORBIN
Republican Sen. Jim DeMint proposed an amendment Thursday to kill a provision in the Senate stimulus bill that prohibits renovation money for schools that allow religious groups to meet on campus.
DeMint proposed the amendment after the provision was passed in the Democratic-controlled House despite unanimous Republican opposition. The amendment is expected to be voted on Thursday, an aide to the senator told FOXNews.com.
DeMint and others who object to the provision say Democrats in Congress have declared war against prayer in the stimulus bill, which currently prohibits funds from being used for the "modernization, renovation, or repair" of facilities that allow "sectarian instruction, religious worship or a school or department of divinity."
"This provision is a clear attack on people of faith and it must be removed," DeMint's spokesman, Wesley Denton, told FOXNews.com Thursday.
"Why is an economic stimulus bill being used to kick religious groups off college campuses? It is a clear violation of students' constitutional rights and it should disturb Americans that they are trying to slip this through while people are concerned about the economy. The real question is who inserted this discrimination into the bill, and why," Denton said.
The language in the provision is so vague that it could prevent students from gathering to pray in their dorm rooms or inviting a speaker to campus to discuss religion, DeMint says.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
do you NOT understand?!
Freedom of Religion ping!
DeMint ping!
We really shouldn’t just let them try this kind of crap,
then withdraw it when they’re caught,
and not be held accountable for wanting it in there in the first place.
Is this some ancient document that has just been unearthed? Certainly Democrats are not aware of it.
>>Republican Sen. Jim DeMint proposed an amendment Thursday to kill a provision in the Senate stimulus bill that prohibits renovation money for schools that allow religious groups to meet on campus.<<
One of those “religious” groups is the Boy Scouts. Its hard to believe we’ve come to a day where schools are punished for letting boy Scouts on campus.
Forget amending the POS bill, just defeat it and be done with it.
Let them go through the whole bill, line by line, and expose the Democrats' garbage for the whole world to see.
Then, kill it.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant!
Exactly.
Let the stimulus bill die a horrible death, but first, open it up and turn the porkulus bill on its own authors, the Democrats.
Let the liberal Democrats and their RINO buddies go down with the porkulus!
Jim DeMint seems to have grabbed the rudder on our party. Some pretty clear, conservative leadership is rising out of SC.
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