Comments on: How churches have carved out special exemptions to the law http://www.thoughtsignals.com/2006/10/08/how-churches-have-carved-out-special-exemptions-to-the-law/ Mark Tosczak's blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: thoughtsignals » Courts: Religious organizations free to descriminate http://www.thoughtsignals.com/2006/10/08/how-churches-have-carved-out-special-exemptions-to-the-law/#comment-36 thoughtsignals » Courts: Religious organizations free to descriminate Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:23:40 +0000 http://www.thoughtsignals.com/2006/10/08/how-churches-have-carved-out-special-exemptions-to-the-law/#comment-36 [...] (See my post from yesterday on this subject here.) [...] [...] (See my post from yesterday on this subject here.) [...]

]]> By: Lex http://www.thoughtsignals.com/2006/10/08/how-churches-have-carved-out-special-exemptions-to-the-law/#comment-34 Lex Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:32:13 +0000 http://www.thoughtsignals.com/2006/10/08/how-churches-have-carved-out-special-exemptions-to-the-law/#comment-34 Michelle Goldberg's book "Kingdom Coming" takes it a step further: Since 2001, the overwhelming majority of federal dollars going to religious programs have gone to conservative-Christian ones, and there's no auditing or other cost-benefit analysis going on. And this is getting to be big money, much of which is being spent teaching groups like themselves how to apply for and win similar grants in the future. That isn't a slippery slope. That's constitutional free-fall, and it needs to stop. Michelle Goldberg’s book “Kingdom Coming” takes it a step further: Since 2001, the overwhelming majority of federal dollars going to religious programs have gone to conservative-Christian ones, and there’s no auditing or other cost-benefit analysis going on.

And this is getting to be big money, much of which is being spent teaching groups like themselves how to apply for and win similar grants in the future.

That isn’t a slippery slope. That’s constitutional free-fall, and it needs to stop.

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