[CS-FSLUG] OT: Newt Gingrich and U.S. Senator Jim DeMint to stop ACLU supported bill

[Fred A. Miller]

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A call to action from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and U.S.
Senator Jim DeMint to stop ACLU supported bill

Democrats vote to discriminate against Christians and people of faith
Take Action!

Send an e-mail and call your representative and two senators today! Tell
them to remove the language discriminating against people of faith. In
addition, please take the time to call your representative and two
senators. The phone number where you can reach both your representative
and two senators is 202-224-3121.

February 9, 2009

President Obama's stimulus bill discriminates against Christians and
people of faith. The stimulus bans universities and colleges from using
funds to renovate buildings where students engage in "religious worship."

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint made the following statement after Democrats
voted 43-54 against his amendment to strike from the economic stimulus
bill language that discriminates against people of faith. Senator
DeMint's amendment would have eliminated a provision that bans any
university or college receiving restoration funds, from allowing
"sectarian instruction" or "religious worship" within the facility. This
would in effect bar use of campus buildings for groups like Fellowship
of Christian Athletes, Campus Crusade for Christ, Catholic Student
Ministries, Hillel and other religious organizations.

"This is a direct attack on students of faith, and I'm outraged
Democrats are using an economic stimulus bill to promote
discrimination," said Sen. DeMint. "Democrats should be ashamed of
themselves for siding with the ACLU over millions of students of faith.
These students simply want equal access to public facilities, which is
their constitutional right. This hostility toward religion must end.
Those who voted for this discrimination are standing in the schoolhouse
door to keep people of faith from entering any campus building renovated
by this bill.

"This is now an ACLU stimulus designed to trigger lawsuits designed to
intimidate religious organizations across the nation. This language is
so vague, it's not clear if students can even pray in a dorm room
renovated with this funding since that is a form of 'religious worship.'
If this provision remains in the bill, it will have a chilling effect on
students of faith in America" he continued.

"Our culture cannot survive without faith and our nation cannot survive
without freedom. This provision is an assault against both. It's
un-American and it's unconstitutional. Intolerant and it's intolerable."

This funding restriction is unconstitutional. In the 2001 Good News Club
v. Milford Central School Supreme Court decision, the court ruled that
restricting religious speech within the context of public shared-use
facilities (or schools) is unconstitutional.

Pages 164-165 of the stimulus contain the following prohibitions on the
use of $3.5 billion available for renovation of public or private
college and university facilities.

    (2) PROHIBITED USES OF FUNDS. 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
construction of new facilities.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich urges Christian activists and other
conservatives to e-mail and call their representative and senators
demanding that the language discriminating against people of faith be
removed.

Gingrich feels that if Christian activists would have enough courage and
holy anger to e-mail and call their representatives and senators, a
number of Democrats would vote no on final passage. We should demand
that this anti-religious provision be removed.

Christians have not expressed enough outrage focused on the concept that
people of faith are being taken advantage of by the stimulus bill during
a time of crisis. They are being stolen from them when they are down and
out and looking in good faith to the government for help. Instead of the
stimulus we need, the liberals are getting the pork that they want --
for themselves, their families, and their friends. They are pickpockets
and thieves preying on the down and out.

It's as if the Good Samaritan had come over to the man who was robbed
and left for dead, bent over, and reached for his wallet and ran on his
way instead of helping. It's like the looter who takes advantage of a
natural disaster to steal."

The liberals are taking advantage of a crisis, just like Rahm Emanuel
said. His quote: "'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,' Rahm
Emanuel, Mr. Obama's new chief of staff, told a Wall Street Journal
conference of top corporate chief executives this week." - WSJ, Nov. 21,
2008.

America is in crisis, and the liberals are looting America's future to
pay off their special interests. This is corruption of the highest
order. E-mail and call your representative and two senators today!
Take Action!

Send an e-mail and call your representative and two senators today! Tell
them to remove the language discriminating against people of faith. In
addition, please take the time to call your representative and two
senators. The phone number where you can reach both your representative
and two senators is 202-224-3121.

-- 
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money.
  -  Margaret Thatcher