Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools. Message-ID: <5907@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 23:11:57 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscc.5907 Posted: Mon Sep 16 23:11:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 02:33:13 EDT References: <1072@ulysses.UUCP> <607@hou2g.UUCP> <5847@cbscc.UUCP> <673@utastro.UUCP> <5878@cbscc.UUCP> <717@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (unix-Paul Dubuc,x7836,1L244,59472) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 33 Xref: watmath net.politics:11024 net.religion:7659 In article <717@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes: >> 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 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 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com