Necessary Roughness

Old Solar has a nice reaction to this World Net Daily article. The governor of California has denied funding to schools who employ moral conduct codes for their students. There are no exceptions for “faith-based” institutions.

This is why I cringed when President Bush created a White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Government money is bait for churches and church-based institutions to spend beyond their original means. They might secure a nice building loan with the new income or hire more people. If someone then decides to establish a “no moral code” rule for these new funds, the organization then has to divert funds from other activities to cover the loan, fire the new people, or perhaps worst, soften their teaching or rules. Knowing what we know about human nature, it is much more humane not to offer the funds.

What happened in California will happen to those organizations that receive federal funds. Count on it.

Vox Day puts it this way: “The state gives money to the church for precisely the same reason that pedophiles offer candy to children.” I don’t think that President Bush created this department and its handouts with the intent of pulling them later, but one can imagine others who would use the department in this manner.