We're picking a Supreme Court justice here, not a Sunday school teacher. President Bush and his allies should be talking about Miers' knowledge of the Constitution, not the Bible. |
When presidents start to become theologians on a regular basis, they begin to exclude people from their audience, |
When you give tax dollars to a parent to pass it on to a school, it's still tax dollars flowing directly to a religious ministry. |
You are sending the signal that the other groups are second-class citizens. |
You cannot use the lure of free food in order to attract children to evangelize. That's precisely the kind of mix of religious and secular function that would violate the Constitution. |
You have to wear a blindfold not to know that it's Christmas. It's mainly a fundraising gimmick combined with the big lie, the organized right telling people they ought to feel persecuted. |