Christian Right CONTINUES to push FALSE talking point about Stimulus

[ck4829]

How many times does this have to be debunked?!

"Anyone who have been reading this blog over the last week knows, I have spent a great deal of time trying to knock down the misinformation swirling around regarding a provision in the stimulus bill that would prohibit funds for being used to upgrade or repair university facilities when said facilities function is primarily religious.

But, despite my efforts, this fraud keeps cropping up on right-wing website, with the Christian Coalition now spreading it and the Family Research Council continuing to peddle it:

First, we know that the current stimulus legislation in Congress is a disaster for the free market economy. But, did you know that there are limitations in the legislation against religious liberty? David French of Phi Beta Cons on National Review Online finds some disturbing facts restricting religious liberty within the stimulus legislation.

FRC doesn't provide a link to French's post ... but if they did send their readers there, they'd find out that French, who happens to be Senior Legal Counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, links to our first post about this whole issue and says that we are right:

One clause indeed prohibits funding for buildings only when a "substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission." (emphasis added). The meaning here is obvious, and it clearly applies to buildings like chapels, or perhaps divinity schools, or many facilities at religious universities. It has no real application to secular, public universities that open up classroom buildings to student groups."

http://rightwingwatch.org/content/does-anyone-understand-meaning-used

Bush and the Republicans passed a measure with the SAME EXACT wording back in 2006! Where was the Christian Right then?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8186423&mesg_id=8186423

[angrycarpenter]

1. The one about billions for ACORN is still all over conservative blogs.

That one is so easy to debunk and yet it is still being stated as fact over on FR.

[katanalori]

2. Huckabee

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18668.html Mike Huckabee is on board to push this lie.
We need to watch Huckabee - he is dangerous yet "likable" like Gomer Pyle was likable.
Huckabee calls the stimulus "anti-religious."