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Scholastic Bigotry
By Grant McEvoy
Jun 10, 2008, 07:19
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Dear Axis of Logic:
I read the article regarding bigotry in Australia over the decision to non-fund a religious school followed by the one describing the religious evangelism of the US armed forces.
If there truly is a separation of church and state, doesn’t the responsibility for funding of anything religious lay in the wallets of the faithful?
Those faithful will cry about the taxes they pay – for roads, sewers, hospitals, water … and yes, public schools where no one religion is taught. If the faithful wish to self-segregate their education – which somehow isn’t bigotry – aren’t they are solely responsible for the funding? The taxes they paid will ensure their new school of religious bigotry will be fully serviced by the city’s infrastructure.
Where I live it was once politically expedient to fund Catholic schools and now they all are clamouring for the public teat. The Catholic school board leased a perfectly good, former public high school from the city and let it fall to pieces. The city just builds them a new one as the old still crumbles and now the same for the Jews, Muslims, Jehova’s, Eastern Orthodox, Scientologists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Anglicans, Seventh Day Adventists, Zoroastrians, Pastafarians,…
Religion should be taught at home and in the place of worship (already tax-free), not on the public dime.
Secularism is not a religion, it is the absence of religion so as to prevent the promotion of one state faith over another and hopefully prevent warriors for Jeebus.
Is it bigotry not to publicly fund any religious school?
Thanks
Grant McEvoy
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