First and foremost, Catholics are part of the public, too, and there is nothing in The Catholic Faith that precludes us from being Good citizens, thus Professor Garnett is correct when he states, “governments may not discriminate against religious institutions that are otherwise eligible for public benefits and contracts”.
Second, if our Founding Fathers did not believe that Religion could serve to complement and thus enhance the value of the State, they would not have desired to protect our inherent Right to Religious Liberty.
Third, due to the fact that much of the funding that goes into education comes from local property taxes, it would be more equitable to redistribute funding in the form of vouchers, so that the schools have more equitable resources.
Fourth, Although we can all agree to disagree about The Establishment Clause, properly understood, it is a self-evident Truth, that when you compromise Truth, you will always end with error, due to a denial of the spirit of the Law. Error has no rights, although it can sometimes serve to illuminate that which is True.
Fifth, we can know through both Faith and reason, that any State that claims our children belong to “them”, and thus we must render onto The State, what belongs to God, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, (see Treaty Of Paris, which ended The Revolutionary War In The Name Of The Most Holy And Undivided Trinity-https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/treaty-of-paris ), has demonstrated a desire to create a “dangerously divisive and irrational impulse”, a tyrannical Government where the State becomes “father”, and our inherent Unalienable Right to Life, To Liberty, And To The Pursuit Of Happiness, the purpose of which can only be what God intended, becomes alienable, in one full sweep, denying The Spirit Of The Law, and thus our Constitution. Every inherent Unalienable Right, is inherent and Unalienable because it comes from God, not Caesar, John Locke, or King John, and thus, we cannot relinquish our inherent Unalienable Rights, Endowed to us from God, even if we so desire.
John, what is interesting is that Australia, for all it's secularity, provides government funds for religious schools, whether Catholic, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or Independent. So there are models of secularism that can accomodate government funding for religious schools, albeit with certain strings attached.
Excellent. I put the McConnell and Chapman book in the Wish List.
First and foremost, Catholics are part of the public, too, and there is nothing in The Catholic Faith that precludes us from being Good citizens, thus Professor Garnett is correct when he states, “governments may not discriminate against religious institutions that are otherwise eligible for public benefits and contracts”.
Second, if our Founding Fathers did not believe that Religion could serve to complement and thus enhance the value of the State, they would not have desired to protect our inherent Right to Religious Liberty.
Third, due to the fact that much of the funding that goes into education comes from local property taxes, it would be more equitable to redistribute funding in the form of vouchers, so that the schools have more equitable resources.
Fourth, Although we can all agree to disagree about The Establishment Clause, properly understood, it is a self-evident Truth, that when you compromise Truth, you will always end with error, due to a denial of the spirit of the Law. Error has no rights, although it can sometimes serve to illuminate that which is True.
Fifth, we can know through both Faith and reason, that any State that claims our children belong to “them”, and thus we must render onto The State, what belongs to God, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, (see Treaty Of Paris, which ended The Revolutionary War In The Name Of The Most Holy And Undivided Trinity-https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/treaty-of-paris ), has demonstrated a desire to create a “dangerously divisive and irrational impulse”, a tyrannical Government where the State becomes “father”, and our inherent Unalienable Right to Life, To Liberty, And To The Pursuit Of Happiness, the purpose of which can only be what God intended, becomes alienable, in one full sweep, denying The Spirit Of The Law, and thus our Constitution. Every inherent Unalienable Right, is inherent and Unalienable because it comes from God, not Caesar, John Locke, or King John, and thus, we cannot relinquish our inherent Unalienable Rights, Endowed to us from God, even if we so desire.
Finally, important to note:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1460903
Godspeed!
John, what is interesting is that Australia, for all it's secularity, provides government funds for religious schools, whether Catholic, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or Independent. So there are models of secularism that can accomodate government funding for religious schools, albeit with certain strings attached.
Yes, it does seem that other countries have figured out how to navigate this particular set of issues better than we've done in the United States.