Faith

On the question bean raised below, I pretty much agree with the Great Sky-Blue Satan. As long as 1)religious organizations adhere to civil rights, civil service, and other government regulations when performing secular functions, 2)the money is for a truly secular and important public purpose, 3)religious organizations cannot discriminate against people who are otherwise eligible for services, and 4)money is fairly available to secular organizations who perform similar functions, I don’t have any objection to them in principle. (I also don’t think that availability can be purely nominal; I don’t support the typical voucher program, for example, which is formally neutral but in practice is designed so that virtually all of the money goes to parochial schools.) And I therefore don’t have any objection to what Obama is saying, but of course everything will depend on exactly what’s on the table and how it’s designed.