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To: radioman

As I posted earlier, you do not pay taxes to the church.

And Robertson does not receive tax funding, except if, as you claim, his organization provides tightly regulated contractual services to feed the poor or rehabilitate drug addicts or some other social services function in which a “faith-based” organization has proven to be more effective at it than the government.

You wouldn’t pay lower taxes if the same tax money was spent on some strictly secular bureaurcy instead.

“Faith-based” initiatives fall under the larger category of privatization, which any good free-marketer applauds as a more efficient use of govt funds — unless, of course, you believe “faith-based” private organizations should be discriminated against specifically on the basis that they’re faith-based, even if they’re willing to contract to provide some service the government wants cheaper or more effectively than the govt welfare bureaucracy.

You and I’d probably agree that the govt oughtta get out of a lot of “social servicing” stuff they do, period, regardless of whether they deliver the service via private contractual or public bureaucratic means.

None of which excuses your ridiculous assertion that modern-day evangelical Christian Americans are comparable to Hitler’s Brownshirts (who were, as a matter of historic fact, led by homosexuals).

Or your ridiculous, unsupported assertions that the Arlington Group’s goal is to take over America “at the point of a gun” or that evangelical Christians have “taken over” the Republican Party or that the Repub Party has been “destroyed.”


1,157 posted on 09/24/2007 4:11:09 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
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To: AFA-Michigan
None of which excuses your ridiculous assertion that modern-day evangelical Christian Americans are comparable to Hitler’s Brownshirts (who were, as a matter of historic fact, led by homosexuals).

Like the evangelist Ted Haggard?
Sure looks like a valid comparison to me.
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1,158 posted on 09/24/2007 4:17:50 PM PDT by radioman
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