Another sign of
the decay:
DOJ cuts
funding of Young Marines program for mentioning ‘God’
A Louisiana sheriff is
standing firm on not accepting Department of Justice funds for the Young
Marines program after he was told he couldn’t mention God if he
wanted the funding. Bossier Parrish Sherriff Julian Whittington said
the demand infringes on his religious freedoms.
Whittington
said he was appalled at the funding condition, spelled out in a letter from the
Justice Department saying any mention of “God” or any “voluntary prayers” could
not be included in the program if it was to receive the $30,000 in funding.
“Last time I said the Pledge of Allegiance, it had God in it,”
Whittington told KTBS, a local TV station. “The last time I picked up a dollar
bill this morning, it had God on it. You mean to tell me that we can’t have
voluntary prayer or mention God in our program?”
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