{"id":134642,"date":"2017-09-11T10:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134642"},"modified":"2017-09-11T12:09:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T18:09:41","slug":"churches-fema-funding-post-hurricane-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/11\/churches-fema-funding-post-hurricane-relief.html","title":{"rendered":"Churches and FEMA funding of post-hurricane relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no problem with FEMA funds going to assist \/ reimburse churches that are providing relief and shelter for hurricane victims. That’s the sort of thing that, if the churches weren’t doing it, FEMA or other governmental relief agencies would have to (or it would be left undone).<\/p>\n

I have huge problems, however, with the idea using FEMA funds to rebuild<\/i> church sanctuaries and other aspects of the worship life at places of faith that have been damaged by storms and flooding. There are other ways to do so through SBA loans and other post-hurricane relief, the same as businesses and individual residents. Federal tax money going to restore a place of worship strikes me as a huge overreach with the First Amendment. Even Trinity Lutheran v. Comer<\/i> was about church facilities that are used for a broadly secular purpose.<\/p>\n


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\nWill Trump Direct FEMA to Fund Churches Hit by Harvey? – The Atlantic<\/a><\/span>
\nThe president weighs in on a long-standing debate over using public money to support religious organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I have no problem with FEMA funds going to assist \/ reimburse churches that are providing relief and shelter for hurricane victims. That’s the sort of thing that, if the churches weren’t doing it, FEMA or other governmental relief agencies would have to (or it would be left undone). I have huge problems, however, with … Continue reading “Churches and FEMA funding of post-hurricane relief”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,748,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hurricane-flooding.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31054,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/wait-now-the-conservatives-want-to-preserve-fema-funding.html","url_meta":{"origin":134642,"position":0},"title":"Wait … NOW the Conservatives want to preserve FEMA funding?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Oct-12 11:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Breitbart.com notes an Administration report in September describing\u00a0the impact of sequestration cuts on the whole of the Federal budget\u00a0-- including FEMA -- and conveniently interpreting it as a \"proposal\" to slash the emergency response department's budget by $900MM.The sequestration law was an awful idea, a case of \"kick the grenade\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32084,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/05\/rebuilding-churches-with-federal-dollars.html","url_meta":{"origin":134642,"position":1},"title":"Rebuilding churches with federal dollars","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Jan-13 2:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm torn on this one ... but I don't see, constitutionally, how to justify federal grants (vs. loans) directly to religious groups to rebuild houses of worship after a disaster.(And I suspect some of the folks who'd be most eager to see that happen would be offended if it were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135196,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/femas-sooper-sekrit-plan-puerto-rico-hurricane-sooper-sekrit.html","url_meta":{"origin":134642,"position":2},"title":"FEMA’s sooper-sekrit plan for a Puerto Rico hurricane … is sooper-sekrit","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Oct-17 7:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"FEMA apparently had a highly detailed plan on how to deal with a major hurricane hitting Puerto Rico. 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