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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (128735)	2/23/2001 1:57:11 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I think we don't know what social effects that sort of educational pattern will have, and it is a distinctly unconservative, in fact radical approach you are suggesting; but the situation at present is unacceptable, and if the vouchers cover the cost of education for everybody instead of just making a high-end education accessible for some with "vouchers" (that's cash toward school) but offering nothing to the ones who can't make up the difference, then maybe the radicalism of the proposal shouldn't be of concern. (My parenthetical true feeling is that TV is blighting children and education. It sends vile messages and wastes their lives. IMO.) <<<While Muslim schools may proliferate greatly under vouchers (or maybe not...) they will not become dominant unless Muslims become a majority of the US population. >>> The fastest growing religion in the US is Islam, and the fastest growing segment of the population by race is African American. Demographic trends may change, of course. But as of now, it's a matter of time before whites are a minority race and Islam isn't a minority religion. <<<Pushing for enactment of single points of ones faith into law is quite different than the establishment of a theocracy. >>> It's less thorough, is all, inhibited, as you say, by the Constitution and, at present, minority status. A group so seized with religious zeal as to fight to use the government to force all American women of all faiths to obey theirs and gestate zygotes into embryos into fetuses in their bodies against their wills is a bunch of authoritarian theocrats. There are hundreds of items of faith temperamental theocrats like the forced-childbirth crowd would visit on others who believe differently if only they could. That "single point" of their faith is a biggie, reminiscent of many of the Taliban outrages. Imagine your wife getting raped and being forbidden to take the morning after pill by religious zealots. It'd feel like a very sharp "single point" of a goddam theocracy! The Constitution is a magnificent thing, but it stands or falls on interpretation, of course. Fortunately, the large majority of Americans doesn't believe as the theocrats on SI do.