-Caveat Lector-
And much of the furor behind the school voucher crusade is coming from the
Catholic church in response to a longstanding demand from the Vatican for
state subsidy of parochial schools, as is the case in Europe. In this, as in
all First Amendment issues involving church and state, I hear the ghost of
Thomas Jefferson laughing...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CTRL] Church vs. State (Supreme Court)
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> The trouble with allowing SOME --primarily the Fundamentalist "Moral
> Majority-- to override the separation of church and state in America is
> that
> this opens the door for the "religionization" of politics by OTHERS TOO --
> and some groups, such as the Catholic Church, have not only bigger
> financial
> clout but an INTERNATIONAL power base ...
> The cry of "anti-Catholicism!" is slowly becoming as strident as
> "anti-Semitism!"
>
> I bet those who are nostalgic for the "good old days" of the '50s,
> when
> paranoid anti-Communism justified a National Security State run by fascist
> generalissimos, are just as nostalgic for a return to censorship of the
> mass
> media by the Catholic Church, the de facto guardian of "public morals" in
> America during the same period ...
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