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[ Article crossposted from alt.religion.scientology ]
[ Author was Rob Clark ]
[ Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 1997 05:19:06 GMT ]

smokesig@ix.netcom.com (Neal Hamel) wrote:

>On 29 Jul 1997 17:20:32 GMT, inducto@aol.com (Inducto) wrote:

>>Why not let them do it, under well-monitored conditions, on a year-to-year
>>trial basis?  Students at the school could be evaluated by standardized
>>tests administered by the school district, which they hadn't been coached
>>on in advance or allowed to take multiple times.  Some conditions would
>>also need to be in place to ensure that it was a valid trial, and not a
>>typical fascist-idealist "potemkin village" packed with only the best
>>students and teachers.

>One problem is that they would use the charter school in their PR to
>look like they gained respectibility.  It would get more people
>suckered into the cult. 

i think any organization claiming a religious nature which gained the
recognition of operating a school paid out of public funds would
naturally be able to use this for recruitment purposes.  this
constitutes the government meddling in the establishment of a
religion, to the detriment of other religions.

thus, i think that no religion should be allowed to use public funds
in this manner, as it would actually tend to favor larger, more
mainstream religions if all religions were allowed to operate schools
with public funds.

i worry the line drawn by the establishment clause will be skirted or
even crossed with increasing frequency or even impunity not merely by
scientology but by larger religions if this is allowed.

the anti-constitutionalists who run our government have nearly
finished off the second amendment and taken large bites out of the
free speech part of the first amendment.  i doubt it will be long 
before they take aim at the establishment clause as well, and with
brennan dead i worry for the balance of the supreme court.

>-Neal H.

rob