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December 14, 2005

08:55 AM - Mr. Plow

Conservatives generally call for less government and more personal responsibility. Religious biases aside, this would imply that private entities ought not be entitled to any government largesse without so much as paying into the system. Oddly, though, such fundamental conservative principles seem to go right out the window when the subject of said largesse happens to be houses of worship. This town indiscriminately did a service no matter the cost to ALL the houses of worship in that town. These are places that are open to the public and accept all who enter. It is my opinion that the generous tradition of the town to clear the snow from the parking lots is a good one. I believe that the town was looking out for the safety of its residents. It is certainly within the purview of the town to plow public thoroughfares for the sake of its residents, but the notion of municipal responsibility for all private parking lots (particularly tax-exempt real properties) is clearly a broadly socialistic one. Is this really the message that Gribbit and others who mock the ACLU's communist leanings intend to support? The town didn’t cut this traditional service due to budgetary constraints and were content to continue the practice regardless of the denomination of the churches. I can see in no way how this can be construed as the Congress passing legislation “respecting the establishment of religion.” I can see Gribbit's point, here, however the fact remains that some 15-23% of Rhode Islanders practice no religion and are nevertheless compelled to support various organized religions via municipal taxes. Why is this any more acceptable than taxing Christians to support programs which they finds ideologically reprehensible? : ACLU, Church & State

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