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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (79334)	12/1/2003 7:38:06 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (79334)	12/1/2003 8:07:44 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't know if this is the right answer, but it seems to me that there is a big difference in that the Catholic school is founded with the stated intention of teaching religion along with regular academics. Students must take a religion course, and they attend daily Mass. There is no separation between the two. The display is also religious in intent. Until proven otherwise, the good Rev. Al is not running with any stated intent to force his religion on the people any more than W did with his reborn Christian status. Anyway, if I remember correctly, the good Rev never even finished college, much less an accredited divinity school. Not sure what his ordination is. That seems to me a logical distinction.