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Bush's "Faith" based plan ... Unconstitutional?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] Omega, You're constantly missing the whole point. Yes, if the Faith program can meet the guidelines provided for by Lemon v Kurtzman, yes, it will be Constitutional. But you made the assertion that the Faith program has wide support in the black community, and should be accepted by Democrats on those grounds. The question posed was, how does the majority support of any group make such a plan Constitutional? If you're going to respond to that question, please do so instead of dancing around the issue. Neutrality. Meaning the government can't pass any laws -- [i]OR GET INVOLVED IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM[/i] -- regarding funding for religion. If individuals want to give money to a church, or send their kids to a Catholic school, fine, but once the government gets involved, it is no longer neutral, and, IIRC, the voucher thing involves the Gov't on either the local, state, or Federal level. How is that neutral? (For those who don't know, Chief Justice Berger summed up the government's approach to religion with the Lemon test, where government aid to religious schools is only constitutional if 1) it has a secular purpose, 2) its effect is neither to advance or inhibit religion, and 3) it doesn't entangle government and religious institutions in each other's affairs.) Now, another good point: how can anyone prove that Bush's plan will meet all three of these? So, the current questions are: How does the support alone of the black community make the Faith program more or less Constitutional? How does Bush's Faith plan not violate the Lemon Test? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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