A broad coalition of religious organizations representing thousands of Wisconsin congregations is calling on the Legislature to reject Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal to drug test some public aid recipients, calling it punitive, discriminatory and not in the best interest of the state.
“In our respective religious traditions, poverty and joblessness are not indicators of bad character,” says the letter to the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance, signed by the representatives of the Wisconsin Council of Churches, the Wisconsin Catholic and Jewish conferences, WISDOM and five other organizations.