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- From: budd@playfair.Stanford.EDU (David Budd)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Government and religious freedoms
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.204056.7328@EE.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:40:56 GMT
- References: <93026.45424.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> <nate.1121@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>
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- In article <nate.1121@psygate.psych.indiana.edu> nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
- >J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
- >> Here's an observation I've made several times, and I direct it toward
- >>those who oppose private school vouchers while favoring federally funded
- >>abortion.
- >
- > That's not me, but I have something to say here.
- >
- >[big snip]
- >
- >> Just for the record: I favor vouchers for private schools, and I'm also
- >>in favor of keeping abortion safe and legal--but I don't want the government
- >>to fund it.
- >
- > The thing that I'm curious about is how you reconcile the position
- >of favoring vouchers for private schools while opposing funding of abortion.
- >It seems to me that your position is just as flimsy as that of the people
- >who favor funding for abortion but oppose vouchers. I'm obviously biased on
- >the subject, but I would have thought that the only thoroughly consistent
- >positions are to either oppose government funding of both (which, for the
- >record, is where I stand), or to favor funding for both (the ultimate "Big
- >Government" position).
- >
- >--
- >Nathan Engle Software Juggler
- >Psychology Department Indiana University
- >nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
-
-
- It is fairly easy to reconcile. A parent who doesn't want his
- child to go to public school is simply getting a rebate on the
- money that he is NOT using for his child's public education. The
- government is not "funding" private ed at all. the person is
- just, in essence, withholding his payment to public school, while
- using that same money to pay for a private education.
-
- The abortion question is fundamentally different in this way.
-
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