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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (148335)10/20/2004 3:15:29 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
is there ever rational discrimination?
Of course. If one man is a better carpenter than another and you need a carpenter, you hire him on that basis. You DON'T hire him because he is Jewish and the other guy is Muslim. Not rationally. If you do so, you do it because of discrimination on the basis of religion.

OTOH, if you are looking for a Methodist church pastor, you pick a Methodist, not a Catholic.

But when you start talking about money that is taken from people essentially at gunpoint for public purposes- -tax money- -that money money comes from Jews, Muslims, Methodists, and Catholics, and they have a right to expect it to be used in ways that do not infringe on their rights and beliefs.

Or to put it differently, an organization receiving public funds should not be allowed to practice any form of religious discrimination. If they do not ike that rule, they should refuse the money.

And if the Republican Party has now become a religious organization, I'm out.
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