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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: one_less who wrote (17542)	4/25/2000 4:48:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 769667

>It, in fact, prohibits the state from making any law that would restrict the establishment of religion. I know it is popular to interpret this in the reverse.< You and I are in disagreement here. I believe that the establishment of [a] religion at Federal, State etc. levels is proscribed by that text. And further imo, allowing a religious core document to be posted in pride of place on a school wall ... is abetting the establishment of religion. Private schools, of course, are under no such restriction. I'm of two minds on the voucher question. On the one hand, I'd welcome the competition to the public school system, just on ideological grounds ... the whole free-market Darwinism thing. Otoh I do believe that a universal public schooling system is invaluable in giving our children a common cultural bond. Without one such, the long-term identity of the nation is in peril. And diverting public schooling money into vouchers would put those public schools into an unrecoverable bind. Poor quality begetting voucher flight begetting even poorer quality ... and no requirement for our kids to have any commonality of literature, history, science. ...So it's a toughie.

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