Unbelievable! Imagine Reimbursing Christians Just Because They Helped Victims

FEMA to reimburse faith groups for helping victims
Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:22 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse churches and other religious organizations that have provided shelter, food and supplies to the victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

The payments with taxpayer money would mark the first time that the government has made such payments to faith-based groups at a time following natural disasters, the newspaper reported, citing FEMA officials.

FEMA is a division within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

According to the article, religious groups that operated emergency shelters, food distribution centers or medical facilities at the request of state and local governments in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama would be eligible.

Rita, packing winds of 120 miles per hour (193 kph), struck the Gulf Coast over the weekend. Katrina came ashore in Louisiana on August 29, killed more than 1,000 people and caused as much as an estimated $200 billion in economic losses.

Reimbursements would cover a "wide range of costs," FEMA spokesman Eugene Kinerney was quoted as saying.

Kinerney said they would include "labor costs incurred in excess of normal operations, rent for the facility and delivery of essential needs like food and water," the report said.

This is clearly a violation of the lead-lined, concrete-filled, cinder block wall separating church and state. How can they do this? Don't they know that our Founding Fathers wanted America to be an atheist nation. Just think if they had included any references to God in the Declaration of Independence...Oh wait, that's right they did. Imagine that. Well at least Jefferson never attended any church services in the Capitol building...Oh wait he did. Well nevermind.

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