Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the
latest attack on Catholic schools:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who boasts of her Catholic schooling, is
now seeking to cripple Catholic schools. She has money in her bill, the Health
and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, for illegal
aliens and sanctuary cities, but wants to rescind funding for Catholic schools
that were granted money by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security
(CARES) Act. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops opposes her
effort.
What Pelosi wants to do is immoral: She seeks to discriminate
against taxpayers who send their children to Catholic schools, families who
were equally impacted by the pandemic. She is also violating the Federal
Emergency Management Act (FEMA) policy as outlined in the Bipartisan Budget Act
of 2018.
In January 2018, FEMA released new funding rules that
allowed direct funding to houses of worship damaged by natural disasters. The
rules said that FEMA will not "exclude houses of worship from eligibility
for FEMA aid on the basis of religious character or primarily religious use of
the facility." It said that "activities of community centers or
houses of worship open to the general public" qualify for federal funding.
The new policy was written to provide relief to churches
that were damaged by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Coronavirus has also impacted
churches, as well as schools. It does not discriminate. Pelosi does.
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