Should the US Government funnel money collected from all Americans, to religions that G. W. Bush favors?

Question

This refers to a case which the Supreme Court is about to hear. George Bush pushed through his "faith based initiative" which implies that his government's IRS can extract money from you and me without respecting our religious beliefs, but when it comes to spending that money he sends it mostly to just his own kind of religious groups.

If followers of any one particular religion want to promote their religion through a charity which operates in their name, why don't they support it with their own funds? What right do they have to dip into the wallets of people who are not supporters of George Bush's religion?

Catholic Charities does not try to convert you to make you a Catholic. But there are many fundie charities that, while they do help people, do so with a definite proselytizing agenda: they want to saaaayve yaw preshus souwl and bring yew to Jeeeeezus and of course that means just the special kind of fundamentalism that they espouse, and the special view of what Jesus was that they hold. Mainstream religions don't act that way. Did any Jew ever come to your door to try to convert you to Judaism? Catholic? Anglican? I didn't think so. And those real faiths don't seem to be dipping into the government wallet the way the fundies are.

Answer 1

the only way it would be fair is if all religious charities got the same amount. I don't know about you but in my area catholic charity is by far the biggest, they have their own fleet of busses to help people get around and run a lot of the hospitals in the area. I'd be very surprised if Bush (or any president as we've only had one catholic) gave them even a penny.

Answer 2

So, if a faith group is putting on a charity, you don't want them to get the same treatment as a non-faith group putting on a charity?

Answer 3

No more than it should funnel money for other things that some americans would find a problem with.