Posted on 03/04/2009 2:16:47 PM PST by AndrewWalden
No witchcraft allowed: Complaints filed against pastor running Hawai`i homeless shelter
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the owner of the shelter should make the rules, IMO
If it’s a private shelter, absolutely.
If it’s funded by the taxpayers, he doesn’t get to exclude anyone on the basis of religion.
a shelter would be stupid to take govt funding
Certainly, if the shelter is part of an ideological group. But government money going to such groups is what the whole faith-based initiative was about.
Obama has changed that to be for any org, not just faith based
Obama doesn't believe in freedom of association. Like Jefferson said, "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
OTOH, some people might listen to him again, "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
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