BUSH GIVES MILLIONS OF FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS TO CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Once again bush and his administration is giving millions of federal 
dollars to judeo-christian churches to rebuild them, according to his 
revitalize christian america plan! This only goes further to prove my 
belief that church and state cannot ever truly be separated 
completely. This brings us to the conclusion that we must have our 
own separate religious state, to live freely and secured with our 
specific oppositional rights!

They go to great lengths to homogenize everything in order to control 
everyone and enforce their moral-values upon everyone through civil 
laws. The day is coming when The Satanic State will achieve 
independence from our judeo-christian oppressors, much like the 
palestinians from their judeo-christian oppressors. 

We cannot allow bush to give churches federal money for any purpose, 
because no matter what it is used to promote and revitalize the 
beliefs of those churches. If we fail to blockade our tax dollars 
from going to churches, I assure you that they will make life even 
more miserable. The Satanic State will become the final solution to 
their oppression. 

Here is the article I read, I'm sure there are more, go and read some:



In a reversal of a longstanding policy, the Bush administration said 
yesterday that it would allow federal grants to be used to renovate 
churches and religious sites that are designated historic landmarks. 

Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton announced the change in an 
afternoon news conference at the Old North Church in Boston, where in 
1775 Paul Revere spotted two lanterns hung to signal the advance of 
British troops. Ms. Norton said the church, which still houses a 
congregation, would receive a federal grant of $317,000 to repair 
windows and make the building more accessible to the public.

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"Today we have a new policy that will bring balance to historic 
preservation and end the discriminatory double standard that has been 
applied against religious properties," said Ms. Norton, standing 
below the church's famed steeple.

The decision was the latest step by the White House to remove 
barriers to government financing of religious organizations, and it 
received mixed reviews from constitutional experts.

In December, Mr. Bush issued executive orders telling federal 
agencies not to discriminate against religious groups in awarding 
social service contracts. He also directed the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to allow religious organizations, including 
schools, to receive earthquake and hurricane relief.

This year, the administration proposed regulations that would allow 
the use of federal housing aid to build religious centers where 
worship occurs, as long as the centers were used primarily for social 
services.

Jim Towey, the director of the White House Office of Faith Based and 
Community Initiatives, said in a telephone interview that the change 
in policy on historic preservation would apply only to places of 
worship that qualify as landmarks under the "Save America's 
Treasures" program. The program gives out about $30 million in grants 
annually to preserve all kinds of historic sites.

Mr. Towey said that the administration was reviewing regulations in 
other government agencies to determine whether religious 
organizations were being subject to discrimination in federal 
programs. He declined to identify the agencies or the regulations.

"They're clearly interested, and they said it all along, in expanding 
the amount of government subsidies for religious institutions," Mark 
Tushnet, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University 
Law Center, said of the administration. 

The policy barring religious institutions from receiving federal 
preservation money had been in place since the late 1970's because of 
concerns about the separation of church and state, said Paul W. 
Edmondson, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation 
and the organization's general counsel. The policy was formalized by 
a legal opinion issued by the Justice Department in the Clinton 
administration in 1995.

Recently, the Old North Church applied for a preservation grant under 
the "Save America's Treasures" program, which is run jointly by the 
National Park Service and the National Trust. Last fall the church 
was told the grant was approved, said Timothy Matthews, a church 
official. But a week later, the church was informed of the 1995 
ruling and the grant was revoked, he said. 

Mr. Edmondson said the National Trust appealed to the Bush 
administration, sensing that the Old North Church was an ideal 
candidate for testing the ban. The White House asked the Justice 
Department for a new opinion and received one that took a stand 
different from the Clinton administration's, Ms. Norton said.

"The buildings that we're talking about have tremendous secular 
importance as historic places," Mr. Edmondson said in an 
interview. "It has nothing to do with their importance as religious 
buildings per se — it's either the role they played in American 
history or their architectural significance." 

The Old North Church was designated a historic landmark in 1961. A 
foundation that is legally separate from the church will administer 
the grant, and the church is expected to raise an equal amount from 
private sources.

Constitutional scholars said that while there were Supreme Court 
precedents that barred the use of federal money to maintain religious 
buildings, the law was shifting and still murky.

"Is this government support for religion?" Mr. Tushnet asked. "In one 
sense, no, because it's not paying the salary of the minister at Old 
North Church. But in another sense, yes, because it's supporting the 
essential physical character of the church."

"We'll find out what the rule is when somebody litigates it," he 
said, "but if I were a litigator I wouldn't go after Old North Church 
because it is obviously of historic significance."

Some First Amendment experts said that giving federal grants to 
preserve religious sites seemed to be constitutionally permissible 
because they were not grants to advance religion or worship. But 
others said the move was evidence that the administration was intent 
on dismantling the wall between church and state.

"This is just one more step in a governmentwide drive to fund 
religion with tax dollars," said Joseph Conn, a spokesman for 
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, an advocacy 
group in Washington. "Literally you're putting public money in the 
collection plate for the church's building fund." 

Mr. Towey said other religious sites that could soon receive grants 
were the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a civil 
rights landmark where a bombing in 1963 killed four girls, and the 
Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., the oldest synagogue in the United 
States.

In an interview after the Boston news conference, Michael L. Balaban, 
executive director of the Touro Synagogue, said the synagogue had 
already requested a $750,000 grant.

Caretakers of the nation's oldest Roman Catholic cathedral, the 
Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore, will also seek a grant soon, 
Robert J. Lancelotta Jr., the executive vice president of the 
basilica's trust, said in an interview in Boston.