02 October 2005

Huh?

"Under that view, the government can give any aid to parochial schools even for religious indoctrination, so long as it did not discriminate among religions. The government could place any religious symbol no matter how sectarian, at its seat of government. Instead of defending the central principle of church and state separation, this view would seek to destroy it." (from Defcon)

Sorry, I don't see this as destruction of separation of church and state. I see it as freedom of religion, pure and simple. A Christian judge can't hang a cross in his courtroom? A wiccan secretary can't put a pentacle on her desk? So far Taoists are safe because the yin-yang isn't seen as relgious, but how long would that last? As far as government funding goes, how is it any less discriminatory to fund only nonreligious schools?

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