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

To: haqihana who wrote (748387)	8/29/2006 12:27:00 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"In most cases, the preachers that bring Christianity to the prisons are not paid a dime, and the Bibles are donated by citizen groups." Excellent. "If you mean the place in which they meet is paid for by tax payers, so what." No, of COURSE NOT! I mean that the government should not be in the position of PICKING and CHOOSING what religion to give taxpayer's money to, and what religion to DENY MONEY to... and the government should not use the taxpayer's money to pay for evangelism and forced conversions. It's simple, really. (No need for you to clutter up the issues with red herrings about situations and things I've never raised, and never complained about....) Taxpayer money should not be used (as the Court found it was here) to finance people telling native Americans that they are 'devil worshipers' and Catholics that they aren't getting in to Heaven. (I don't mind religions, or various sects, claiming or saying anything they want to... it just shouldn't be financed with taxpayer's money. The government should be neutral in religion.)