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Head Start On Religious Discrimination

I am pretty sure the GOP has completly lost their sanity, especially in the House where they have voted to make relgious discrimination acceptable.

The Republican-led House approved a bill to renew the Head Start program through 2011. The bill includes a provision that would let churches and other faith-based preschool centers hire only people who share their religion yet still receive federal tax dollars.

My aunt worked for Head Start and in rural areas where education among the poor is especially difficult, it’s a great program. I would hate to see it tarnished because a parent from the Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, was unwilling to let their children learn at a place that only hires people from the Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915.