Um … I'm pretty certain the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment pretty much rules out setting up a government agency to promote explicitly religious values. But, hey, I'm not a GOP Presidential Candidate, so what do I know?
'He defended creating a new government agency at a time when fellow Republican presidential candidates discuss eliminating government agencies to making the government smaller.'
Yes, the biggest problem with this is that it violates … the principles of small government.
'"There's nobody who's spent more time shrinking government and cutting budgets than I have," Kasich, the former head of the House Budget Committee said, adding that not all government programs are equal.'
Nor, apparently, all religions.
And so the Overton Window noodges further to the right.
Kasich Proposes New Government Agency To Promote Judeo-Christian Values
As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to p
Doesn't he mean Caucasian judeo christian?
+keith olszewski I suspect he means "American Judeo-Christian of the sort that would appeal to the folk in Iowa and the Southern Baptist Convention." Which is, of course, one of the problems.
+Dave Hill so, yes, Caucasian……
+Dave Hill the constitution is just like the old and new testaments: you can read them to justify anything you want them to…especially if you are a republican.
I just… words. Even the quasi-sane ones are complete idiots…