SCOTUS has ruled this to be unconstitutional.
The attempt to make religious faith a target for contempt, ridicule and isolation is beginning to show up more and more as the government makes the slightest mention of ‘God’ a reason to withhold funds from a perfectly legitimate and worthy program for young people. The sheriff is to be commended. We have to push back on this nonsense.
I think funding to most all programs should be cut.
More of Obama’s minions doing the work that he doesn’t have to do...to, “Fundamentally Change America”. Madame Guillotine, oil up your slide.
This is good anyway. This will get people off gov’t money.
As we see here, any gov’t money has strings attached, short term or long term.
There’s two constitutional problems with DOJ’s anti-God policy. First,
only Congress can violate 1A, in this example by making a law which respects or prohibits an establishment of religion. It is not unusual for anti-religious expression judges, for example, to wrongly legislate anti-God policy from bench.
Regarding the funds being withheld because of religious issues, Justice John Marshall had officially clarified that Congress cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues, religion a 10A-protected state power issue. So the funding for Young Marines that sheriff is refusing in name of religious expression should never have been taxed by feds in the first place imo.
Programs like this should get private funding....when I first read this story, my reaction was....I would send them money to keep a program like that going. I would rather have my money working for good then feeding some lazy pimp who WON’T work!
I was pulled over in Bossier Parrish once over 20 years ago...although I contest the Sheriff’s account of my velocity and believe the incident came about because of my California plates, I said “yessir” and paid the fine.
I would not mess with those guys.
Wanna bet they give money to people who bow down and mention a middle eastern deity a lot?
And seeing eye dogs will be banned for dislyecics.
This reaches further than this single event. Unconstitutional government funding is the actual issue here.
I applaud the Sheriff!
Ever American citizen has the right to say ...
“From this day forward, I sincerely promise, I will set an example for all other youth to follow and I shall never do anything that would bring disgrace or dishonor upon God, my Country and its flag, my parents, myself or the Young Marines. These I will honor and respect in a manner that will reflect credit upon them and myself. Semper Fidelis.”
Article. I. Section. 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
There is No power Herein granted by the Constitution that empowers Congress to deny or censor speech.
However, the 1st Amendment prohibits Congress from funding the establishment of a state religion.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Now, let’s get back to the words in the oath in dispute. The oath is not the business of the government and therefore the government has no power to censor the words.
However, if the Congress funds the Department of Justice then the progressive agenda takes the opinion that funding is an attempt to establish a religion for the entire nation.
This is the loophole Obama and other constitutional activist use to discredit the founding documents’ declaration that rights came from their creator and replace them with the declaration that their rights came from government.
Unconstitutional funding of the Public School System is also the reason the government justifies removing prayer.
Has the payment received for selling your soul to the government achieved the change you hoped for?
This is tyranny of a big Federal (I should say feral as I almost wrote) government. These b*sterds should never have been allowed to get so large, now they control with the purse strings*!