It's that time of year again in autumn when the political-candidate lawn signs advertise candidates seeking election.
Some are running for City Council, and in our western-suburb metro area, most of the candidates are of the weaker-sex inferior gender type....which is out of line with the essence of Ecclesiastes 7:27-28, Isaiah 3:12, Nahum 3:13 (RSV), I Corinthians 11:3 and 14:33-38, I Timothy 2:12-14, and I Peter 3:1-7. The lamentable candidate selections available are definitely a situation of choosing the lessers of several evils. More taxpayer-funded pork-barrel neighborhood projects, zoning restrictions and regulations, and city-bureaucrat salary raises ahead, I guess.
Lawn signs advertising school-board candidates are visible also. Again, the same problem with the disgusting presence of mostly weaker-sex inferior-gender options. One wonders which selections among these will suggest, implement, and enforce within and as part of curriculum:
Is it any wonder that children [mis]educated within public schools don't even know geographic-capital names, names of states, names of U.S. presidents, how to do arithmetic, how to read big words, non-confusing non-vague true morality from Bible verses.....but instead know how to chalk-scribble and spray-paint graffiti as mischievous vandals, bully and attack other students, molest girls, talk filthy, sass adults with defiant arrogance, become immersed in real-life-misrepresentational violent and murderous video games, shriek, get drunk with alcohol and narcotics, zombie out in front of boob tubes, sex-ed terrorists trained in seductively imposing immodest mopheaded and/or sleevesless and/or slacksless and/or socksless sexual harassment at random during warm days, self-sodomizingly masturbate while gazing on porn videos and DVDs and internet websites, etc.?
And then there is the VOTE YES FOR SCHOOL LEVY lawn signs, so that city residents are psyched into paying higher property taxes to support more of the same public-school garbage already infesting and defiling the community. But in the minds of the depraved, public-school "education" will solve all mankind's social problems. Oh sure.
Christian parents do not want their children polluted and degraded by such ridiculous miseducation, but instead want decent and productive parochial-school education for THEIR children. And results show that the parochial-trained kids are far superior in knowledge and performance than public-school peers indoctrinated and brainwashed with anti-Biblical doctrines-of-demons heresies and depressive godlessness. So government must respond, and property-tax referendums and levies voted for on Election Day and apportioned thereafter are the issue.
Obviously, it is NOT FAIR for Christian parents to have THEIR property tax monies go to public schools when those parents do not send their kids to public school but instead pay for parochial schools of their choosing. So in fact they pay twice (once in property taxes for public schools their kids never use, and again for parochial-school tuition schooling they do use). Again, THAT is NOT FAIR.
Government has two options. Either exempt (by optional written-form acknowledgement) Christian parents from that portion of property taxes which would have gone to public schools funding......or give (by optional written-form acknowledgement) Christian parents tuition vouchers from the property taxes they do pay, for parochial schooling while disallowing them from entering public schools.
With IRS-mentality precedent, government probably would prefer the latter option, so as to take property-tax monies and invest them, before giving monetary vouchers to Christian parents for parochial schooling.
Clearly, however, such government discrimination regarding (not "concerning") Christian parents brings up the question of government involvement relating to church-in-state separation and integration. In other words, the government must then decide WHICH brand of Christianity (or of religion, for that matter) qualifies for the vouchers. Should only Catholics get it? Protestants and Catholics? Christians but not Jews? Jews and Christians but not the Church of Satan? Islamic also? If Protestants exclusively, only those espousing the King James Version? If Lutherans only, only those whose Bible translation includes the Revised Standard Version (RSV)? Should NIV readers be allowed to get vouchers? How about those Christian zealots who have police records because of anti-abortion protests or Christ's frank-and-forthright saints who satanic cops have targeted for nitpicky traffic violations and hundred-dollar fines?
The United States Constitution does not specify particular religious denominations in the First Amendment. Thus, it is up to overwhelming and overriding general and majority public opinion, and the whims of court judges, which religious practices (and those practicing such) are acceptable and which are not. Everyone has their own particular opinion of what is acceptable and what is not. "One person's view as as good or bad as anyone else's," or who has the most aggressiveness or muscle at the time because of intellect or finances or circumstances.
The only standard government can use in determining who gets and who does not get vouchers, in relation to what is legitimate "religion" and what is illegimate....is: The HOLY BIBLE.
But what version(s)? Let's get specific: What ENGLISH versions? If government agents and officials must (and they might) get into details, it gets down to a question of what Hebrew Old-Testament and Greek New-Testament texts are used to discriminate (e.g. the ben Asher/Kittel Hebrew Text instead of the ben Chayyim text, and the Scrivener/Trinitarian Greek Text instead of the Nestle or Westcott-Hort or United Bible Society Greek texts).
This webauthor once saw an errant misstatement in a big-city newspaper that "the Supreme Court is for everyone." In reality, it (and every other court) is NOT for everyone, in that the courts always decide for either the plaintiff or defendant AND against either the plaintiff or defendant.
Even the opportunity to appear or not appear before a certain court is up to the whims of the court which decides that.
It is true that God shows no partiality, sending His rain on the just and unjust. But it is equally true that God is quite partial, by preserving those who obey Him and destroying those who do not obey Him. Similarly, government does not bother the law-abiding (sometimes even acclaiming them)...but punishes the law-breaker. And all branches and forms of government have myriad ways to do both, suddenly or gradually, dramatically or subtly.