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To: Hodar
"So can I refuse to fund those degrees? Absolutely. For example, if there are taxpayer paid courses on Islamic Studies; feel free to have the taxpayer support yanked."

Interesting. . .so a person who objects to medical schools based on religious grounds has every right to expect that funding for medical educations can be yanked? I doubt you'd agree. And yet you think it is okay not to fund a divinity degree because of an anti-religious bias.

149 posted on 02/25/2004 12:53:17 PM PST by MEGoody
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To: MEGoody
And yet you think it is okay not to fund a divinity degree because of an anti-religious bias.

And again, who benefits from a taxpayer paid eduction in divinity or Theology? Only the congregation of said Theology. Who benefits from the study of medicine? Everyone.

If I create the church of "Billy-Bob and the Eternal Possum", the only benefitiaries of this chruch will be me, and my disciples. Somehow, I doubt you'd find much meaning in the theology (especially since I haven't invented it yet). However, I could demand to be funded at the same level as your church. Equal protection under the law, free speech and all that. So, if you get yours, I get mine. Or, they simply say that part of the tax-free nature of the church is to spread the word of their religion (ie. education) and do humanitarian works.

154 posted on 02/25/2004 12:59:54 PM PST by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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