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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
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Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 15:43:31 EDT
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> >>> OK.  Then we'll make church attendance cumpulsory, just as a
> >>> state certified education is now.  You'll have to help support
> >>> the church with your tax money too, just so we're all on an
> >>> equal footing.  Is it a deal?
> >>> -- 
> >>> 
> >>> Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd
> >
> >The implication here is that churches don't get help financially from the
> >tax-payer. If they don't have to pay taxes, then they are being helped.
> >
> >Padraig Houlahan
> 
> Are they being helped more than the public schools who don't have to pay
> taxes either (though they recieve help from tax money)?
> -- 
> 
> Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd

The degree to which they get aid through the tax system is a separate, though
related, issue. The original issue only concerned the implication on your
part that they do not get help from the tax system.

Padraig Houlahan.