The Democrats hoped to slide it by unnoticed, but the Stimulus bill that passed the house contains a provision prohibiting worship, religious instruction in any facilities that uses federal funds for renovation purposes. Here is the actual language.

"Grants awarded under this section shall be for the purpose of modernizing, renovating, and repairing institution of higher education facilities that are primarily used for instruction and research"

"Funds may not be used for the "modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities--(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or (ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission."

You can hide all sorts of liberal-left goodies in a trillion dollar looting bill.

"Democrats are looking for every opportunity to purge faith and prayer from the public square. This will empower the ACLU with ambiguous laws that create liability for schools, universities, and student organizations. This is an attack on people of faith and I don't think Americans will stand for it." -Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina)

DeMint's spokesman Wesley Denton says, "This is an ACLU stimulus, because any school that gets funds to upgrade a student center or building where Bible studies or religious meetings may be held will be slapped with a lawsuit. This bill declares a war on prayer at college campuses in this country. Students have constitutional right to use public facilities regardless of their religious views, and President Obama needs to step in to ask Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi to stop this attack on students of faith.”

This is how the left rolls. The characterization of churches who supported Prop 8 as anti-gay simply failed to mention that GLBT groups also hope to use legal precedents like this to chase religion out of the public square. It was and is the prospect of losing personal rights of worship to the GLBT or ACLU agenda that was the real impetus behind the intense effort to pass Prop 8 in California.

I suspect Mr. Obama is having a very bad day today. The 300+ million birth control funding that Nancy Pelosi defended as "stiimulus" was so clearly ridiculous that it undermined the credibility of the entire bill in spite of its subsequent removal. That was mild compared to how this piece of language is going to threaten Americans of faith. This rises to bitter-clinger remarks in undermining the credibility of the administration. Yes, Obama probably had nothing to do with it, but the politics of the issue will nevertheless hold him responsible.