Sen. Jeff Sessions Threatens NEH Budget Over Islam & Humanities
Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R — but you knew that already) is demanding to know why the National Endowment for the Humanities dare spend thousands of dollars to study open-ended questions like “What is the meaning of life?” ($24,953)
And his underwear is in a bunch because the NEH is also distributing books about Islam to libraries.
Sessions makes no bones about the purpose of his letter, which is to establish his reasons for trying to gut the NEH’s budget. As he notes, his counterparts in the U.S. House of Representatives have already proposed cutting the agency’s funding by half for fiscal year 2014. “Using taxpayer dollars to fund education program grant questions that are very indefinite or in an effort to seemingly use Federal funds on behalf of just one religion, does not on its face appear to be the appropriate means to establish confidence in the American people that NEH expenditures are wise,” he writes menacingly. “Hopefully, your answers will help alleviate these concerns.”
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[Emphasis added by me.] If the NEH were distributing boks about Christians, I bet Sessions would be totally cool with that.