Ron’s Blog

Head Start to become Morning Bible Class

So, the U.S. House OKs Faith As Head Start Hiring Issue. That is, if this bill becomes law, religious groups will be able to get federal Head Start grants, but also refuse to hire people who don’t share their religion.

So we’re getting federally-funded programs, supposedly aimed at enriching the early education of underprivileged kids, that are being given explicit permission to engage in straightforward religious discrimination in hiring.

I’m just not sure whether this is really driven by the theocratic impulse, or if instead it’s just back-door ‘Publican attempt to undermine support for Head Start among Democrats and reassign money back from education and help for the less fortunate to the more important things, like big no-bid contracts for Haliburton.