{"id":1117689,"date":"2021-12-14T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117689"},"modified":"2021-12-14T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:44:26","slug":"big-mother-joe-bidens-war-on-religious-daycares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-mother-joe-bidens-war-on-religious-daycares\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Mother: Joe Biden\u2019s War On Religious Daycares"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbig-mother-joe-bidens-war-on-religious-daycares%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117689&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>While members of her own party seem skeptical about the inflation-inducing cost of President Joe Biden\u2019s social spending bill, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced that the \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d act snagged a huge endorsement: the Son of God. At an October 20 rally, Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/102021-1\">said<\/a> that our Lord Jesus Christ practically demanded that the United States enact a universal pre-K program:<\/p>\n<p><em>Christ said, \u201cSuffer little children to come unto [M]e.\u201d All children \u2013 all children in our country are about our country\u2019s future. And we want to make sure that all children have the opportunity that they deserve. They\u2019re all blessings containing their spark of divinity.&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pelosi did not explain how her remarks align with indefatigable advocacy of abortion-on-demand until birth, which she has called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2013\/07\/for-democrats-abortion-is-their-religion\/\">sacred ground<\/a>.\u201d Nor does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+19%3A13-15&amp;version=KJV\">the biblical passage<\/a> she quoted have anything to do with government acting as the whole nation\u2019s childcare provider. But there\u2019s a larger contradiction, which carries weightier consequences for Americans if the president\u2019s top legislative item passes: The Build Back Better act wages war on the very place millions of American children would hear Jesus\u2019 words \u2014 religious daycare centers \u2014 preventing them from modeling their religion\u2019s teachings about transgenderism and sex.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Democrats have touted the approximately $400 billion of funding the Build Back Better act dedicates to universal pre-K. The BBB establishes an Obamacare-style program of subsidies for childcare for six years, with states left holding the bag for the unfunded mandate at the end of that time. Taxpayers would pick up the daycare tab for parents making less than 75% of the state\u2019s median income \u2014 and keep paying for families making up to $300,000 a year. Recipients would not spend more than 7% of their income on childcare. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/5376\/text\">bill<\/a> also saddles daycare providers with onerous new restrictions, including hefty minimum salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/democratic-child-care-plan-churches-synagogues_n_618ad731e4b06de3eb7bbec6\">point out<\/a> that the bill explicitly allows religious daycares to receive federal funding. \u201cNothing in this section shall preclude the use of such certificates for sectarian [e.g., religious] childcare services if freely chosen by the parent,\u201d the bill says. But two of the least-discussed provisions of the bill would squeeze out faithful Christian and Jewish daycare providers from the market in favor of government-controlled (or government-obedient) childcare centers.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the opposition has focused on the less important of these two provisions: The bill could be interpreted as excluding religious facilities from receiving federal funds. \u201cEligible child care providers may not use funds for buildings or facilities that are used primarily for sectarian instruction or religious worship,\u201d it says. The ambiguous wording leaves the law\u2019s impact open to legal interpretation. But the Supreme Court has already ruled that excluding a church \u201cfrom a public benefit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution\u201d in 2017 (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/16pdf\/15-577_khlp.pdf\">Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia Inc. v. Comer<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The real constitutional conundrum is not that religious childcare centers will not receive federal funding but that they <em>will <\/em>\u2014 and that government funds come with strings that would require believers to act against their faith\u2019s traditional moral teachings.&nbsp;Provisions of the Build Back Better act could require religious or church-run daycares to hire transgender or LGBT teachers. In fact, it seems Democratic lawmakers deliberately structured the bill to force this choice on churches.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s connect the dots.<\/p>\n<p>Low-income parents already receive federal childcare vouchers under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/occ\/faithbased.pdf\">Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)<\/a>. Since the federal government considers the primary recipients of these vouchers to be the <em>parents<\/em>, not the facilities, the laws \u201callow funds to follow the child to any participating child care provider the parent selects, including faith-based providers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Build Back Better Act changes all that. The BBB, in a clause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/14\/us\/politics\/religious-groups-child-care.html\">added by<\/a> Rep. Robert C. Scott (D-VA), would designate childcare funds as \u201cfederal financial assistance\u201d \u2014 meaning that church- or synagogue-run daycares would have to abide by federal \u201cnondiscrimination\u201d policies in hiring. These include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title IX. Although neither law contains a word to that effect, the Supreme Court and the Biden administration have interpreted the laws as meaning that employers cannot refuse to hire homosexual or transgender employees.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Labor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/general\/topic\/discrimination\/fedfinanassdisc\">specifies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Programs or activities receiving <strong>federal financial assistance<\/strong> must comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities; and the Age Discrimination Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of age. Education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance also must comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex. (Emphasis added.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/19pdf\/17-1618_hfci.pdf\">decision<\/a> in <em>Bostock v. Clayton County <\/em>(2020) states that no one subject to Title VII<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While members of her own party seem skeptical about the inflation-inducing cost of President Joe Biden\u2019s social spending bill, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced that the \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d act snagged a huge endorsement: the Son of God. At an October 20 rally, Pelosi said that our Lord Jesus Christ practically demanded that the United States enact a universal pre-K program:Christ said, \u201cSuffer little children to come unto [M]e.\u201d All children \u2013 all children in our country are about our country\u2019s future. And we want to make sure that all children have the opportunity that they deserve. They\u2019re all blessings containing their spark of divinity.\u00a0 Pelosi did not explain how her remarks align with indefatigable advocacy of abortion-on-demand until birth, which she has called \u201csacred ground.\u201d Nor does the biblical passage she quoted have anything to do with government acting as the whole nation\u2019s childcare provider. But there\u2019s a larger contradiction, which carries weightier consequences for Americans if the president\u2019s top legislative item passes: The Build Back Better act wages war on the very place millions of American children would hear Jesus\u2019 words \u2014 religious daycare centers \u2014 preventing them from modeling their religion\u2019s teachings about transgenderism and sex.Congressional Democrats have touted the approximately $400 billion of funding the Build Back Better act dedicates to universal pre-K. The BBB establishes an Obamacare-style program of subsidies for childcare for six years, with states left holding the bag for the unfunded mandate at the end of that time. Taxpayers would pick up the daycare tab for parents making less than 75% of the state\u2019s median income \u2014 and keep paying for families making up to $300,000 a year. Recipients would not spend more than 7% of their income on childcare. The bill also saddles daycare providers with onerous new restrictions, including hefty minimum salaries.Proponents point out that the bill explicitly allows religious daycares to receive federal funding. \u201cNothing in this section shall preclude the use of such certificates for sectarian [e.g., religious] childcare services if freely chosen by the parent,\u201d the bill says. But two of the least-discussed provisions of the bill would squeeze out faithful Christian and Jewish daycare providers from the market in favor of government-controlled (or government-obedient) childcare centers.Much of the opposition has focused on the less important of these two provisions: The bill could be interpreted as excluding religious facilities from receiving federal funds. \u201cEligible child care providers may not use funds for buildings or facilities that are used primarily for sectarian instruction or religious worship,\u201d it says. The ambiguous wording leaves the law\u2019s impact open to legal interpretation. But the Supreme Court has already ruled that excluding a church \u201cfrom a public benefit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution\u201d in 2017 (Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia Inc. v. Comer).The real constitutional conundrum is not that religious childcare centers will not receive federal funding but that they will \u2014 and that government funds come with strings that would require believers to act against their faith\u2019s traditional moral teachings.\u00a0Provisions of the Build Back Better act could require religious or church-run daycares to hire transgender or LGBT teachers. In fact, it seems Democratic lawmakers deliberately structured the bill to force this choice on churches.Let\u2019s connect the dots.Low-income parents already receive federal childcare vouchers under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). Since the federal government considers the primary recipients of these vouchers to be the parents, not the facilities, the laws \u201callow funds to follow the child to any participating child care provider the parent selects, including faith-based providers.\u201dThe Build Back Better Act changes all that. The BBB, in a clause added by Rep. Robert C. Scott (D-VA), would designate childcare funds as \u201cfederal financial assistance\u201d \u2014 meaning that church- or synagogue-run daycares would have to abide by federal \u201cnondiscrimination\u201d policies in hiring. These include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title IX. Although neither law contains a word to that effect, the Supreme Court and the Biden administration have interpreted the laws as meaning that employers cannot refuse to hire homosexual or transgender employees.The U.S. Department of Labor specifies:Programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance must comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities; and the Age Discrimination Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of age. Education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance also must comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex. (Emphasis added.)The Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) states that no one subject to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act can fire (or refuse to hire) \u201can individual for being homosexual or transgender.\u201dFurthermore, on May 10 Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra,\u00a0announced\u00a0that the federal government would interpret \u201cTitle IX\u2019s prohibitions on discrimination based on sex to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and discrimination on the basis of gender identity.\u201d The Obama-Biden administration similarly inserted LGBTQIA+ status into bills where the inclusion had never been contemplated, and tried to force its will on churches.So, the BBB would subject churches \u2014 which have taught for 2,000 years that there are only two biologically determined genders and that sex outside of marriage between one man and one woman is sinful \u2014 to the Biden administration\u2019s (im)moral views. They would have to choose between living their faith and receiving federal funding.The bill constitutes \u201can intentional effort to bring all of these programs under the moral revolution mandated by the federal government. And that means that religious institutions and religious organizations would not be able to operate these schools in a way consistent with their own beliefs, especially when it comes to the gender and sexual morality revolution, the entire array of issues, most importantly summarized as LGBTQ,\u201d said Albert Mohler Jr. president of\u00a0The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. \u201c[W]hen the federal government involves itself in funding, eventually it will seek to control.\u201dOrganizations representing Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews \u2014 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Orthodox Union \u2014 have made their objections known. The BBB\u2019s language \u201cwill be detrimental to our ability to participate\u201d and will \u201cimpact our ability to stick with our Catholic mission in a variety of ways,\u201d Jennifer Daniels, associate director for public policy at the USCCB, told The New York Times.\u00a0Nathan J. Diament, the public policy director at the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, agreed that \u201cthe way the bill text is drafted, there are details that will deter, if not make it impossible for, faith-based providers to participate.\u201dSo far, there is no evidence that the Catholic bishops\u2019 pleas have made a dent on \u201cdevout\u201d Catholic Joe Biden.\u201cDemocrats are ending decades-old, bipartisan protections for religious preschools and child care centers that will pressure facilities to choose between federal funding and their faith,\u201d said Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR). \u201cThe Democrats are struggling to pass President Biden\u2019s signature legislation. But instead of backing down and compromising, Democrats are making the bill even worse to appeal to their radical base. It won\u2019t work.\u201dDemocrats are ending decades-old, bipartisan protections for religious preschools and child care centers that will pressure facilities to choose between federal funding and their faith.\u2014 Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) November 3, 2021A war on church social agencies is a war on America. As in every other area of social help, churches have led the way in childcare since the foundation of our republic. \u201cResearchers note the earliest evidence of faith-based child care is a nursery founded in 1789 by the Quaker-supported Philadelphia House of Industry,\u201d noted a report from the Bipartisan Policy Center. The center found that a majority (53%) of American families where all parents work entrust their children to religious daycares.\u201cThe Build Back Better Act eclipses the family, churches and communities, leaving us all beholden to big government,\u201d wrote Penny Young Nance, president of Concerned Women for America. \u201cFederal bureaucrats will surely claim the right to approve curricula, performance standards, and more \u2013 all decisions best left in the hands of parents and local communities.\u201dIt\u2019s bad enough that too few Americans seem concerned whether the federal government should take upon itself the blatantly unconstitutional role of paying for childcare. It\u2019s worse that even fewer bat an eye when the government takes it upon itself to dictate the terms of children\u2019s upbringing like an omniscient Big Mother. In this case, Big Mother government uses the power of federal funding to force its immoral views on holy mother, the Church.\u201cThe current language in the \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 bill seems to go out of its way to marginalize religious organizations,\u201d said Stanley Carlson-Thies, founder and senior director of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance. \u201cThat\u2019s a terrible precedent to establish.\u201dThe views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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