Ethics

Stupak Submits Unconstitutional Bill in Congress

By Ed Brayton

U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak has introduced a bill that would transfer a piece of Coast Guard-owned property in Cheboygan to a Christian school free of charge, an action that legal experts say would run afoul of the separation of church and state required by the First Amendment's religion clauses.

If passed, HR 1291 would require the Coast Guard to "expeditiously convey to the Cornerstone Christian Academy, located in Cheboygan, Michigan, without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all real property under the administrative jurisdiction located at 900 S. Western Avenue in Cheboygan, Michigan, subject to all easements and other interests in the property held by such other person."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).