Should taxpayer $$ be used to fund religious education?

Sharky

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Forgot about Separation of Church and State?
Not at all. Freedom of religion and freedom from religion are quite capable of coexisting with separation of church and state. That's the way it should work. That's the way it was designed to work. IMHO, "freedom of religion" (as Thomas Jefferson put it) makes "freedom FROM religion" an implicit point.

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." Thomas Jefferson (Letter to the Danbury Baptists, January 1, 1802)
 
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Sharky

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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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StuAzole

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Avoiding the public school system until college is what allowed me to succeed and not end up looking like this and working for the sewer department

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Yet you still couldn’t afford a house near the beach, had a wife who dominated you and felt so lost you visited a proud boy meeting, ultimately giving up all together and fleeing the state.
 
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Ifallalot

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Yet you still couldn’t afford a house near the beach, had a wife who dominated you and felt so lost you visited a proud boy meeting, ultimately giving up all together and fleeing the state.
Wrong on all counts

How's that law practice going?