Re: Pluralism and Coercion

[Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 09:33 AM 6/4/2002 -0400, Doug Jones wrote:
>What if
>the tables were turned and the community imposed a levy to support some
>ailing private religious schools by an appeal to "compelling national
>stake in an educated citizenry"? Why then would the public school
>proponents cry fowl

This would not be unprecedented--recall (to me) the most obvious 
example:  The federal government's rescue of Chrysler Corp.  Yes, some 
people cried foul--some people always cry foul, no matter what the 
government does.

It is more likely that the government (and people) would move to rescue 
ailing private secular schools, as the "respecting any religion" thing 
could get in the way of aiding a religious school.  I think this still 
serves the point.  This kind of intervention would not be unprecedented; 
nor would it be unchallenged.  That's the system.


Bob Hoffmann
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