Labor secretary: Raising minimum wage a religious imperative

The Washington Examiner reports:

Labor Secretary Tom Perez said Wednesday that it was a religious imperative that the federal government help American workers through issues such as raising the minimum wage and requiring businesses to pay more overtime.

"This is really about biblical teachings. This is about what is taught in the Quran and what is in the Torah and what we learn about making sure we 'do unto others.' ... This about who we are as a nation," Perez said in an emotional speech at a forum on the minimum wage hosted by the AFL-CIO labor federation at Gallaudet University.

He said the Obama administration's economic agenda would include a "relentless" drive to increase the minimum wage as well as stopping "wage theft" through increasing business requirements for providing overtime and paid leave. He applauded labor unions, saying that "we need to raise the workers' voice." He repeatedly said that those policies were right because they were moral and ethical.

Religion is ok for the Obama regime as long as it promotes socialism.