tanknetter,
don’t forget the next part: ‘“It is a church that has decided to open its doors to the public to provide the socially beneficial service of educating children for a fee, in compliance with state compulsory education laws,” she said, drawing a sharp distinction between churches and religious ministries.
“Church-operated schools,” Kruger stated, “sit in a different position with respect to the permissible scope of governmental regulations, than churches themselves do.”’
In typical cowardly liberal/socialist/progressive fashion, the desire isn’t to openly confront now. They want to open multiple fronts of attack: regulate parochial schools, to cause them to do as they wish, regulate any church-affiliated organization. That means that they don’t have to directly confront the churches themselves, because they’ve already effectively muzzled all but the imams.
Likewise in typical liberal fashion, it is preferred (by them) to make us criminals, so that it all becomes a “police action,” and their role is one of regrettably having to clean up after those crazy, illicit Christians who couldn’t follow the law. While they are cowards, and indolent, and many other things, most of them are not stupid.
If they are perceived as directly confronting the religious majority of the country, they will be roundly, utterly defeated. Not just in polls or elections, either. But if they couch it in such a way as to cause us to appear, in whatever manner, as illegal and unable or unwilling to even try to be decent (as portrayed), then they can feel self-satisfied and as if they are under sufficient cover to act without fear of repudiation and recrimination. They’re cowards.
If they can paralyze the religious, especially the Catholics, there are fewer impediments to them reaching their goal of remaking society at large. This is but the latest move.
Bismarck said he wasn't against the Catholics' right to "worship," but their right to operate "socially beneficial services" (primary schools, seminaries, Universities, hospitals/medical missions, publishing houses, social services for the poor) functioning as subsidiaries of the Church, not the State.
I am sure that even most Catholics do not realize that the Church is--- or ought to be --- the ultimate bulwark against the totalitarian State.