Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!mordor!ut-sally!utastro!padraig From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools. Message-ID: <717@utastro.UUCP> Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 11:32:34 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.717 Posted: Sat Sep 14 11:32:34 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:28:02 EDT References: <1072@ulysses.UUCP> <607@hou2g.UUCP> <5847@cbscc.UUCP> <673@utastro.UUCP> <5878@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.politics:11012 net.religion:7653 > In article <673@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes: > > > >I thought religions were already being helped financially - don't > >they get tax breaks? > > This is really irrelevant to the issue at hand since public schools > don't pay taxes either. Private schools have to charge tuition. > Parents paying this tuition must also pay taxes to support the public > schools. (This is the argument for tuition tax credits.) > > Paul Dubuc cbscc!pmd I hate to disappoint you but it is relevant. I was responding to the remark: >> 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 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com