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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Tax Supported" Churches.
Message-ID: <780@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 10:21:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  2 10:21:55 1985
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References: <5945@cbscc.UUCP> <569@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> <421@persci.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
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Summary: 

In article <421@persci.UUCP> bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
> In article <569@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
> >Look, the issue here is very simple.
> >
> >Does it cost the government money to fight fires, maintain the streets,
> >patrol neighborhoods to discourage blatant criminality, and pick up the
> >garbage?  Obviously it does.
> >
> >Do churches benefit from these services to the same extent secular
> >organizations do?  Obviously they do.
> >
> >Do churches pay for them?  Obviously they don't.
> 
> Tim, the issues are *ALWAYS* simple when you don't use real facts,
> but invent them up out of your own prejudice.

Which of the above do you dispute, Bill?  They don't look invented to me.
Let's have something at least as substantial from you.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh