I don’t blame you for avoiding the news lately, but I wanted to point out this article on the House pork-barrel, Tax-the-Future bill passed a few days ago. The Senate has not passed it yet, and maybe Republicans will vote against it like their House counterparts did. But in the House version of this bill, money for school renovation will not be allowed on facilities open to “sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity.” $6 billion is allotted for this.
Doesn’t that “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion? Why should the Fed have any prohibitions on such money?
Mathew Staver of the Liberty Counsel said, “President Obama’s version of faith-based initiatives is to remove the faith from initiative. [Obama] a completely different view on faith” from what he said during his presidential campaign.”
Doesn’t that “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion?
No. Not giving money to something isn’t the same as prohibiting it. Although the way the government is rushing to fund everything and its brother, I can see how it would get confusing.
I suspect at some point in our lives we’ll see mega inflation.
But a school in need a renovation but also one that allowed a local congregation to use its gym on Sundays would not be able to sign up for the money without planning to denying the congregation it’s meeting space. There’s no call for that. The government needs to stop this kind of social engineering (pipe dream though that is).
I didn’t know there were congregations meeting in schools. I thought the school buildings were just used for schools.
We need to get the government out of a lot of things. But I don’t see the politicians voting themselves less power any time soon.
As someone who has worked in church planting, I can tell you that many, many start-up churches meet in school auditoriums.