{"id":127494,"date":"2022-07-03T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127494"},"modified":"2022-07-03T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T17:38:56","slug":"team-biden-asked-about-grants-promoting-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127494","title":{"rendered":"Team Biden asked about grants promoting atheism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s (DLR) grant program has a grant that promotes atheism and humanism around the world. Republicans have queried this program and its intent. They stated, in their argument, that both are recognized as First Amendment protected belief systems under “religious freedom”. Thus, these grants are potentially a violation of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Republicans pointed out that atheism and “humanism” are both “official belief systems” protected under the First Amendment’s right to religious freedom and said they would “like to know what other United States government programs supported with appropriated funds are being used either to encourage, inculcate, or to disparage any official belief system — atheist, humanist, Christian, Muslim, or otherwise.”<\/p>\n

Banks and his colleagues wrote that it “is one thing for the Department to be tolerant and respectful of a wide range of belief systems” and “to encourage governments to respect the religious freedom interests of their citizens.”<\/p>\n

b”It is quite another for the United States government to work actively to empower atheists, humanists, non-practicing, and non-affiliated in public decision-making,” the letter read. “Any such program — for any religiously-identifiable group — in the United States would be unconstitutional.”<\/p>\n

“In addition to its constitutionally dubious legal foundation, we also question how such a grant or cooperative agreement program advances the foreign policy interests of the United States,” it continued. “Were such programs known by the citizens of the target countries, we would expect that local populations, interest groups, and governments would bristle at what any ‘objective observer’ would see as ‘covert’ funding from a foreign power designed to shatter local religious and cultural relationships.”<\/p>\n

The Republicans wrote that this is “not ‘religious freedom'” and the DRL’s NOFO on the subject “prioritizes atheists and humanists above all other potential recipients.” They also argued that the prioritization violates “both the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses” as well as the “the No Religious Test Clause of Article VI” of the Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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