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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: The Philosopher who wrote (79334)12/1/2003 7:38:06 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 82486
 
So you don't see how a school having been founded by Catholics disqualifies it from receiving federal funds, or a display having been put up by one religion or another disqualifies it from sitting on publid property.

If they are religious schools, of course I see it. If the school was merely founded by Catholics but later developed a secular purpose, then it's secular. I was once a Catholic, too. I am not one now. The mere fact that I was baptized a Catholic has nothing to do with anything. Had I been ordained, that wouldn't have had anything to do with anything, either. An ordained minister running for public office is pursuing a secular purpose. No different than a doctor, of which there are many in the Senate, is running as a doctor. Or an oil executive. Obviously, one's career informs one's thinking on a variety of political topics but that isn't disqualifying. Now, if Sharpton were running on a platform of theocracy, that would be another matter. I once worked as a waitress. Doesn't mean I served coffee to my colleagues during my career as a systems analyst. Who was that hooker who held office in Italy? I don't imagine she practiced her former profession as a subset of her official duties.
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