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Old 10-27-2007, 02:00 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by team_barlo View Post
Thank you! I was trying to find a way to say that very thing. I do not want my taxes funding ANY religion in ANY way. Making that the case in no way infringes on the rights of people to worship as they choose. I am far from atheistic, but I'm not a Christian or a Jew, so why should I be paying rent on a public building housing a monument to the 10 Comandments? That is a huge affront to my freedom of religion and so is being expected listen to a Christian prayer at a graduation from a public school. I don't see Buddhas and yin & yan plastered all over courthouses and in schools (nor would I want to).

How is it an "affront" to your freedom of religion? You are still free to practice any religion you want, or none at all.

The fact is your taxes can be spent on all kinds of things you don't happen to agree with. Including funding political campaigns for candidates you passionately disagree with, wars you don't support, and subsidies for farmers to grow food you won't eat.

Conversely, you gain benefit from taxes paid by people who don't know you and, given the choice, wouldn't want to subsidise your life.
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