With the dramatic increase as of late of people needing financial assistance for everything from health care to food to shelter, I'm beginning to see an uptick in conservative attempts to tie assistance to moralizing, conformist demands that you listen to and obey the edicts of right wing religious assholes. First, this attempt to turn the high rate of Medicaid-covered childbirth into some kind of moral issue regarding their idiotic sex rules for other people, and now this: Todd Starnes is trying to make it an issue that the federal government requires religious charities that take federal money to refrain from proselytizing. The group was using the food distribution as a hook to get people into a roomful of religious materials and pushing Bibles on them. Starnes is defending this as necessary behavior.
