03 November 2008

Helen Thomas still has it

I hope I'm still this feisty after a few decades of banging my head against a brick wall:

Is there anything more that the administration can do to ignore the spirit of the U.S. Constitution before President Bush leaves office?

The New York Times has revealed that a 2007 memorandum by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel claims that even federal programs subject to nondiscrimination laws can hand out taxpayer money to groups that discriminate in hiring staffers.
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The Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives was established by Bush in the White House, paving the way for church groups to win grants for social causes such as anti-drug programs and shelters for the homeless.

The president asked Congress to make it "legal" for religious groups to be given taxpayer money even when they discriminate against hiring people of other faiths. When Congress balked, Bush issued an executive order making the changes he wanted on his own.

2 comments:

Angry Lab Rat said...

Thus yet another example why there needs to be a separation of church and state!

Tantalus Prime said...

ALR

Glad to see you are still about.