Comments on: Enjoy the Play http://www.beerdrinker.org/2004/03/02/enjoy-the-play/ Beer is Good Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:19:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: nader http://www.beerdrinker.org/2004/03/02/enjoy-the-play/comment-page-1/#comment-389 nader Thu, 04 Mar 2004 03:45:37 +0000 http://www.beerdrinker.org/?p=362#comment-389 I think, given the greater context, you are right on here rick. GW has already "religicized" many debates that wise politicians would keep their noses out of. Same-sex marriage seems to be the biblical question du jour. But GW has seemed to look to the bible for policy decisions before. What about his attack on the California Federal court ruling that the "plede of allegiance" violated church/state separation. He floated the idea of a constitutional amendment at that time too. His education programs which shift money from "secular" public schools to private or charter schools which could have a religious curriculum. His initiative to divert funds for social welfare programs to "faith-based" charities. GW seems to have worked religicizing into his agenda, and that is not a good thing. I think, given the greater context, you are right on here rick. GW has already “religicized” many debates that wise politicians would keep their noses out of. Same-sex marriage seems to be the biblical question du jour. But GW has seemed to look to the bible for policy decisions before. What about his attack on the California Federal court ruling that the “plede of allegiance” violated church/state separation. He floated the idea of a constitutional amendment at that time too.

His education programs which shift money from “secular” public schools to private or charter schools which could have a religious curriculum.

His initiative to divert funds for social welfare programs to “faith-based” charities.

GW seems to have worked religicizing into his agenda, and that is not a good thing.

]]> By: beerick http://www.beerdrinker.org/2004/03/02/enjoy-the-play/comment-page-1/#comment-386 beerick Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:33:24 +0000 http://www.beerdrinker.org/?p=362#comment-386 thanks for not smashing me on the gibber-jabber at the beginning of the post, I had a point, I promise...just dropped it halfway on a busy day. But I still think that whether it was generated at the top of the propaganda machine or just filtered down that that question is harbinging (?) the flavor of the coming battle. thanks for not smashing me on the gibber-jabber at the beginning of the post, I had a point, I promise…just dropped it halfway on a busy day. But I still think that whether it was generated at the top of the propaganda machine or just filtered down that that question is harbinging (?) the flavor of the coming battle.

]]> By: brett http://www.beerdrinker.org/2004/03/02/enjoy-the-play/comment-page-1/#comment-385 brett Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:44:11 +0000 http://www.beerdrinker.org/?p=362#comment-385 Well, the question was asked by a notoriously retarded reporter from the New York Times. I don't think it was Republican idiocy so much as media idiocy. As Jon Stewart said, it was probably the stupidest question ever asked in a debate. Well, the question was asked by a notoriously retarded reporter from the New York Times. I don’t think it was Republican idiocy so much as media idiocy. As Jon Stewart said, it was probably the stupidest question ever asked in a debate.

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