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To: Hodar
The schools put standards on who may study subjects.

Your argument that allowing a divinity student to have the same scholarship offered to EVERY SINGLE OTHER PERSON IN THE WORLD somehow opens the door to paying for wacko religions is nonsense.
138 posted on 02/25/2004 12:38:41 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
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To: rwfromkansas
Your argument that allowing a divinity student to have the same scholarship offered to EVERY SINGLE OTHER PERSON IN THE WORLD somehow opens the door to paying for wacko religions is nonsense.

Firstly, we are not talking about everyone in the world. We are talking about students in America.

Secondly, if we fund religon 'A', we must equally fund religon 'B'. Members of all relgions are garanteed equal protection under the law. Whether you consider them 'wacko' or not. If I belong to "Billy-Bob's Church of the Eternal Possum", and you get to go to your seminary on taxpayer dollars; guess what? I get to go to mine too. Do you really want a bunch of Eternal Possum Missionaries running around on your tax dollars?

143 posted on 02/25/2004 12:48:34 PM PST by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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