[Hodar]

No one is being asked to fund religion. They are being asked to fund education.

Let's be intellectually honest, ok? Your statement should have read "They are being asked to fund religous education."

Again, if I am required to fund YOUR religous training, then as the taxpayer I will demand that you follow MY rules as to what, who and how you teach. For example, now women MUST be able to be Pope (in the case of Catholics), and you must use EEO guidelines in assigning your church hierarchy. I don't think anyone wants that, do you?

My taxes fund degrees for people who will never 'help' me in any way, yet I am required to fund them none the less.

And this statement is patently false. Who do you think wrote the software that you are presently using? Who do you think designed the hardware you own? The roads, your health, your home, clothes, heating and AC all came from your educational tax dollars. These things didn't just magically 'happen'.

[MEGoody]

"Let's be intellectually honest, ok? Your statement should have read "They are being asked to fund religous education."

Yes. They are also asked to fund education in things that are of no aid to me and with which I disgree. So can I refuse to fund those degrees?

[MEGoody]

"Again, if I am required to fund YOUR religous training, then as the taxpayer I will demand that you follow MY rules as to what, who and how you teach. For example, now women MUST be able to be Pope (in the case of Catholics), and you must use EEO guidelines in assigning your church hierarchy. I don't think anyone wants that, do you?"

Accredited schools already have requirements they must meet. So how is this going to be different? If you are implying they would put 'rules' on religious training that they would not put on other types of education, then we go back to the constitional guarantee of equal treatment under the law.

"And this statement is patently false."

You think it is patently false that I fund degrees that will never help me in any way? Hmmm. . .so tell me, how does a person with a degree in "Women's Studies" help me? How about the person who has a degree in "Elizabethan Literature"?

[rwfromkansas]

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.