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Does that mean you'd like the thread to move in a a new direction having seen that you were mistaken in your OP in seeing the two positions as consistent.Was that a statement or a question? Your punctuation is puzzling.
If I wanted to change the subject, I'd abandon the thread and start a new one. I'm asking the question because there is a clear similarity between the scenarios: Is it OK for taxpayers to support an organization they don't believe should be receiving taxpayer funds, even if the funds are to be used by that entity for things they are in favor of?
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Why should anyone care who anti-PP conservatives feel? Is public policy based on emotion or on reason?I wasn't asking as a means to an end of shaping public policy or opinion. I was simply curious.
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As someone who is himself an anti-PP conservative, I'll tell you how I'd feel. I'd be a little unhappy and suspicious of PP getting a grant for mammogram machines. However, unless I had good reason to believe PP was being fraudulent and had no intent of starting to provide mammogram services, I believe it would be immoral for me to oppose the grant. Mammogram services (in accordance with current medical protocol) are a good. Opposing a good on speculative claims that "money might be freed up for abortion" etc, would be wrong.Ok then. Thanks. I don't disagree with that position at all. I think it's an entirely rational viewpoint.
But, back to my hypothetical: if the church received those taxpayer dollars and maintained a policy against allowing certain taxpayers' children to use it, on the religious grounds that they do not allow people in alternative nontraditional families admission, do you think that's an acceptable outcome? Prohibition of directing tax dollars to religious organizations obviates that problem entirely, though as I wrote previously, that constitutional prohibition may be an unnecessarily blunt tool for a condition that would benefit from precision, and I'm entirely open to other alternatives.
The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W