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old_comedywriter
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26 Jun 2022, 7:38 pm

On the VA site? This is what you get when government and the Supreme Court endorse and fund religious organizations of ANY KIND, acting contrary to our Constitution.


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26 Jun 2022, 9:02 pm

old_comedywriter wrote:
This is what you get when government and the Supreme Court endorse and fund religious organizations of ANY KIND, acting contrary to our Constitution.

I am correct to understand the "This is what you get" as referring to the fraud, yes?

Yep, just like the fraud the government gets for hiring some military veterans, no matter whether the Constitution addresses the specific issue or not,
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U.S. Attorneys » Southern District of California » News
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, December 6, 2021
Former Employee Sentenced for Defrauding the Veterans Administration

Assistant U. S. Attorneys Dylan M. Aste (619) 546-7621 and Valerie H. Chu (619) 546-6750

NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – December 6, 2021

SAN DIEGO – Anthony Medrano, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and former employee of the Veterans Administration, was sentenced in federal court today to eight months in custody for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs out of more than $183,000.

According to his plea agreement, Medrano admitted that between approximately November 2015 and May 2020, he submitted claims to the Veterans Administration (VA) in which he purported to be disabled so that he could obtain caregiver benefits for his wife, when he was actually able-bodied and even participating in fitness challenges and coaching youth sports.

Medrano executed this scheme while employed in the VA’s Veterans Benefits Administration as a Veterans Service Representative, a position in which he explained benefit programs and entitlement criteria to veterans applying for VA benefits.


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26 Jun 2022, 9:06 pm

That's more reading than the ME/CFS is going to allow me this evening,
https://constitution.congress.gov/brows ... _00000711/

Home > Browse the Constitution Annotated > First Amendment—Fundamental Freedoms > Amdt1.1 The Religion Clauses > Amdt1.1.2 Establishment Clause > Amdt1.1.2.1 Establishment Clause: Doctrine and Practice > Amdt1.1.2.1.1 Current Establishment Clause Issues > Amdt1.1.2.1.1.1 Financial Assistance to Religion > Amdt1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Financial Assistance to Church-Related Institutions
https://constitution.congress.gov/brows ... _00000711/

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Amdt1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Financial Assistance to Church-Related Institutions

First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Court’s first opportunity to rule on the validity of governmental financial assistance to a religiously affiliated institution occurred in 1899, the assistance being a federal grant for the ...

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27 Jun 2022, 7:21 am

old_comedywriter wrote:
On the VA site? This is what you get when government and the Supreme Court endorse and fund religious organizations of ANY KIND, acting contrary to our Constitution.


This is much too generalised a statement to make and paints all religious people as being engaged in fraud - which includes several WP members.


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27 Jun 2022, 8:09 am

^ Not so.

The quote addresses the funding of religious organisations, not the probity of veterans.
Last I checked an organisation is not a person.


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