Religious Leaders Denounce Governor's Damaging Initiatives

From the Faithbased Leaders Website:

People of faith and people of conscience cannot remain silent when government leaders propose to undermine working families and the least among us.

Several of the proposed initiatives would inflict grievous and unnecessary harm on working families, the elderly, the disabled, the very young, and the poor.

Therefore, we commit ourselves to speaking out against propositions 74, 75, 76, 77 and 78 in the California Special Election on November 8, 2005.

The California Special Election is about the core values of tolerance, respect, compassion, and regard for the neighbor that uphold faith.

Here in our state of California, where dedicated public servants have made such a significant contribution to the overall quality of life, we now face a situation where these same public servants—school teachers, school aides, nurses, home health workers, even firefighters and police officers—are being publicly scapegoated for fiscal problems they did not create.

Morally and ethically, California cannot afford such injustice.