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Florida official tells Christian charity to choose between Jesus and cheese
Fox News ^ | 9/09/13 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 09/09/2013 2:54:57 PM PDT by blueyon

A Florida ministry that feeds the poor said a state agriculture department official told them they would not be allowed to receive USDA food unless they removed portraits of Christ, the Ten Commandments, a banner that read “Jesus is Lord” and stopping giving Bibles to the needy.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christian; corruption; florida; govtabuse; obama; usda
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To: blueyon

Who? Who was it? I want the name of the official, please.


21 posted on 09/09/2013 3:38:39 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: null and void
Besides the horrific financial penalties for his agency, aren't there personal liability penalties to any official who seeks to violate civil rights under color of authority? Including jail time and loss of any pensions, IIRC.

Not at all. There's no case to be made when Uncle Sam attaches strings to the money he gives you.

There's no reason why a USDA program like this should even exist. There's even less of a reason why any self-respecting charity would cater to Caesar's demands just to get its hands on Caesar's cash.

22 posted on 09/09/2013 3:39:10 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: blueyon; Joe Brower; seekthetruth
...said a state government worker showed up to negotiate a new contract.

No name in the article...some Amanda Bevin chick was named, but I don't think that was the "state government worker"...

seek, joe, maybe we ought to contact Rick Scott and some of our fellow Florida FREEPers to get this wrong action corrected!

23 posted on 09/09/2013 3:41:27 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Alberta's Child

If they don’t require non-Christian religious charities to repudiate their faith as a condition of government largess, then discriminating against Christianity clearly and unquestionably violates the establishment clause.


24 posted on 09/09/2013 3:42:38 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: null and void
Sure. But I don't see any evidence that non-Christian charities are treated any differently in this case.

Quite frankly, I would have nothing to do with a "charity" that relies on government largesse for its financial well-being. That's exactly what got Catholic Charities into trouble in California a few years ago when they tried to claim some kind of exemption from a law relating to domestic partnerships, on the grounds that they could not be compelled to violate their religious beliefs. The state judge in the case rightly decided that Catholic Charities isn't a religious organization, and one of the key points in his ruling was that they received most of their funding from government agencies.

It's instructive to note that in the parable of the Good Samaritan, the Samaritan who came across the injured traveler didn't pick up a cell phone and call 911 so a chariot could come and take the guy to the King Herod Trauma Unit at the Caesar Augustus Medical Center. The Samaritan put the guy on his donkey, took him to a nearby inn where he could rest and recuperate, and paid the innkeeper out of his own pocket.

25 posted on 09/09/2013 3:55:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: blueyon

Cheeses of Nazareth!


26 posted on 09/09/2013 3:59:57 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: blueyon

I’ll take dude who can 5,000 people with couple of loaves of bread and some fish, Alex...


27 posted on 09/09/2013 4:16:21 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“maybe we ought to contact Rick Scott and some of our fellow Florida FREEPers to get this wrong action corrected”

Good idea do we have any Florida freepers around


28 posted on 09/09/2013 4:18:37 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: blueyon

Well........refusing to distribute food purchased with money taken with the threat of being assaulted at gunpoint by agents of the gubmint.....
Sure sounds like there is one gubmint apparatchik who’d best mind his surroundings lest a patriot take to heart the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson.


29 posted on 09/09/2013 4:30:32 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: blueyon

bump


30 posted on 09/09/2013 4:31:21 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: BillyBonebrake

LOLOL!!! That is the funniest exclamation I have ever read! Thank you for the good laugh!


31 posted on 09/09/2013 4:39:31 PM PDT by abclily
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To: blueyon

That brick of gubmint cheese (as I remember it) is some good cheese. But it’s not as good as Jesus. It’s not even as good as Odin. It’s better than Kali, though...maybe they should try blackmailing the Thuggee cult down the road...


32 posted on 09/09/2013 4:50:49 PM PDT by Anton.Rutter
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To: blueyon

It is a violation of the 1st to deny the people their right to their views, religious or otherwise.


33 posted on 09/09/2013 5:16:48 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: blueyon

Christian Service Center Of Columbia County Inc
Address PO BOX 2285
Lake City, FL 32056-2285


34 posted on 09/09/2013 5:29:49 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

thanks you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


35 posted on 09/09/2013 7:33:43 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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