Reply #14: State sponsored church: bad idea and sick outcomes [View All]

What fooled a lot of religious folk about faith-based initiatives was the illusion that it would be inclusive, that their own sect would be safe and would profit from the association.

Bob Jones University's bookstore has books about Roman Catholicism shelved with "Cults." Cardinal Mahoney, not to be outdone, thinks Buddhism is "licentious," among other nice words. And so it goes.

"Faith-based initiatives" were a bad idea from the outset, and highly dangerous to religious freedom. While Catholic Social Services has a long history of utilizing trained social workers, from the outset of Bush's hairbrained scheme one could see the whole notion of professionalism was being chucked out the window in favor of prayer and church attendance.

This story is really sick. The guy was 19 when he got busted for pot and this is four years later and he's still trying to get free of the fundies' control? This is just sick on so many levels.

Hekate
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