Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Him


	Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Him

merrie

2-6-2009 12:30 AM

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(h.r.1) & (s.336), “prohibit”modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities, sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school of divinity

merrie says:

The bill includes $20 billion for school “modernization, renovation or repair of facilities” – with $14 billion for elementary and secondary schools and $6 billion for higher education, which includes the secular string attached.

What exactly is “a substantial portion”? If an organization lets the scouts meet in their facility, will they no longer be able to use government money to fix their building?

It’s simple, really. You grow the public sector, shrink the private sector, and fund only what you deem ideologically sanitary.

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