Loyaty Oaths

Americans are being fired from taxpayer-funded jobs for failing to sign Christian loyalty oaths? Welcome to George W. Bush's America:

Anne Lown, a Jewish woman from Boston, had worked nearly 25 years for the Salvation Army’s children’s services arm in New York when she was thrust into the world of faith-based initiatives.

Lown, associate director of the local Salvation Army’s government-funded Social Services for Children, was one of 18 employees to leave or be dismissed in 2003-04 for allegedly refusing to sign forms swearing loyalty to the group’s Christian principles.

The problem, in cased you missed it, is this: Lown worked for the secular-oriented social service arm, a branch of the Salvation Army that takes nearly all its $50 million annual budget from city and state government.