I am. I did not finance the building to be a religious center. I financed it to be a school building. And that is what it is except for an hour or so not even regularly.
Are you ok with the atheist club meeting there? How about the chess club? Why should my tax dollars fund a space for either or any of them?
Why do I want religious belief there? Because the community wants it there and they are the ones who paid for it.This nonsense that religion cannot be in the public square is alien and contrary to the founding of this country. The 1st amendment does not say a word about separation of church and state.
In fact, it says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Seems to me you are saying the free exercise thereof is objectionable.
No.
How about the chess club?
Yes.
Why should my tax dollars fund a space for either or any of them?
Chess is an legitimate academic pursuit. Worship (or the degradation of worship in the case of the atheist club) is not. The purpose of the school is to educate, not to indoctrinate.
I have a better idea!
Abolish government schooling.
In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have public education and this argument would be moot. I would much rather have my real estate and other taxes back and make my own educational arrangements.