> >Since when is failing to fund something the same thing as trying to suppress
> >it? Is the government trsying to suppress my work in analytical legal theory
>>because it does not subsidize that work?
>
>Taxes are not per se coercive, but there is something coercive in mandating
>that children go to school, but only providing money for non-religious
>schools, thereby forcing poor religious families to send their children to
>places they find ideologically repugnant.
Why apply this argument only to religions? Surely, there are many constituencies (e.g., poor feminist families, poor GLBT families, poor black nationalist families, poor white supremacist families, etc., at all points of the socio-political spectrum) that find current public schools ideologically repugnant but manage to live with them. If they can live with public schools, why can't the religious who disapprove of secularization? Anti-secular religious folks have to learn to avoid special pleading. -- Yoshie
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