Ethics

The Anti-Religious Stimulus Bill

By Ed Brayton

You may recall a few weeks ago the ridiculous claim from the religious right that the stimulus bill contained a provision that would destroy religious liberty because the section that included grants to colleges for updating their facilities had a statement in it saying that the funds could not be used for buildings that were used primarily for sectarian religious purposes. Here's the actual text, which forbid the use of such funds for buildings:

(A) used for sectarian instruction or religious worship; or

(B) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).