Political Quotes

“no American citizen should have to pass someone else's religious test to qualify for a federally funded job. That is why I am strongly supporting the Woolsey amendment allowed under this rule. Without the Woolsey amendment, private groups could actually receive millions of Federal Head Start dollars to run Head Start programs, and then with those public tax dollars, they could hire and fire people not based on whether they could help educate and support children, but whether they passed a religious test. That is wrong. For any citizen to have to choose between his or her job and personal religious faith makes a mockery of the free exercise clause in the first amendment of our Constitution. Let me be specific, without the Woolsey amendment, a group associated with Bob Jones University could receive a multimillion dollar Federal grant and use those tax dollars to put out a sign that says this: No Jews or Catholics need apply here for a federally funded job. Now, if you think it is okay to have that kind of religious discrimination using Federal dollars, then vote against the Woolsey amendment. If, like many Americans and the vast majority of Americans, you think that that kind of religious bigotry is wrong, then vote for the Woolsey amendment. Without the Woolsey amendment, American women could be denied a federally funded Head Start job simply because a grant recipient says, in their religious beliefs, women really should not have the right to work.”