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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (128727)	2/22/2001 9:54:57 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What a mind. In one post you veer from "faith based" welfare, to school choice and then to the mother of all topics - infanticide - a cruelty only a zealot could love.

To: E who wrote (128727)	2/22/2001 10:13:32 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Vouchers will permit many who are not now disposed, or able, to pay for private schools to found private religious schools for their own faithful. I am generally strongly in favor of separation of church and state. However, on this matter I have been bending lately. The performance of public schools is so bad that they need all the competition they can get. They keep claiming that they have too little money. In my lifetime funding of public schools has increased dramatically and the quality of output has fallen with it. The more money you have, the more useless, interfering bureaucracy you can afford, and the more money you can waste. Scrap and sell off the public school system, kill teachers unions, have government (preferably state and local) collect funds for education, and give parents vouchers useable only to pay for education. Some parents will send their kids to schools where they will learn little or nothing. Most will not. I believe you will see a dramatic improvement overall. Muslim schools will proliferate greatly (even more than those of other faiths, would be my guess, but it's only, of course, a guess) as will those of other faiths. While Muslim schools may proliferate greatly under vouchers (or maybe not; a large precentage of Muslims already make enough to put their kids in religious schools if they want to), they will not become dominant unless Muslims become a majority of the US population. I don't see that happening. You may disagree with this, but I see as absolutely theocratic in nature the position taken by a number of those I have met on SI that RU486 should be forbidden to American citizens and that all American women should be forced, against their will, by the power of the state, to gestate to term any fertilized ovum, even the zygote of a rapist, even that of an incestuous rape. Pushing for enactment of single points of ones faith into law is quite different than the establishment of a theocracy. Establishing a theocracy here will requiring scrapping the Constitution, and I think that musty old document is well enough loved that that will have to be done at gunpoint.