> Paul Smith wrote:
>
> To his credit, when he announced the faith-based program office,
> Bush explicitly said that the goal was to only promote programs that had
> supporting empirical evidence. An interesting contradiction,
Why? What about a faith-based program that has demonstrated efficacy in
solving a particular social problem (promoting abstinence to decrease std's
and unwanted pregnancies)?
> SNIP
> Of course, in practice is a vastly different matter, and the religious
> fundamentalists have consistently shown themselves completely unworthy of
> our trust. I do wish that someone would just simply bring that out into the
> open.
Our trust? Who are you speaking for here?
And what have the fundamentalists done to show themselves *completely
untrustworthy*? For that matter, how they have shown themselves more
untrustworthy than the government? Oh wait, that was the previous
administration...
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