Why haven't churches and religious organizations [View All]

stepped forward to offer refugee centers?

The Conservative Right and Bush have been saying for years that churches can and should handle social problems the government doesn't want to be bothered with, and that they don't want to pay taxes for.

So why haven't Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and all the other local Conservative religious leaders stepped forward to offer shelter and resettlement for some of the displaced persons form New Orleans?

Everyone's acting as if the water will go down and all those unfortunate people will be able to go home and rebuild, but that simply is not going to happen for a lot of them this time around.

Every single congregation that considers itself socially responsible should step forward and offer to take in some of the refugees. Meanwhile, true temporary housing needs to be constructed for some of the hundreds of thousands who now have nowhere to live.

Religious people like to go on and on about how they are morally superior to the non religious, and this is one opportunity to live their faith.