I just got this email from the Secular Coalition for America [secular.org]. Any of you activists who answered their call to write your senators and say that you don’t want your tax money going towards religious groups should be proud of yourselves. Let’s use this success, and every future success, as a springboard to future victories for our constitutional rights.
February 18, 2009
Dear Supporter,
Congratulations! Yesterday, President Obama signed into law an economic stimulus package that DID NOT include funding for the Compassion Capital Fund.
Because you took a few minutes out of your day and wrote to your Senators, you helped to stop $100 million from being funneled to religious organizations that otherwise would have been permitted to engage in discriminatory hiring practices.
The Secular Coalition for America is proud of you and the U.S. Senators who worked on the conference report for making sure that faith-based funding was not included in the stimulus package.
We have had several great victories so far this year: an attempt to use taxpayer dollars for divinity schools and other religious buildings on college campuses was rejected, as was an attempt to re-instate the Global Gag Rule that President Obama had overturned a week earlier.
Please continue to support the work that we do by taking action and by supporting us financially.
Congratulations again!
The Secular Coalition for America
