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I was driving home today and saw this real winner of a church sign:
THE SCHOOLS DON'T NEED MORE MONEY THEY NEED GOD
Which is cool, of course; everyone knows that there just ain't enough Jesus in American culture.
Unfortunately, there's this little matter of the Constitution, which kinda frowns on non-tax-paying fundamentalist churches dictating the public schools' curriculum. So...the minute I see this church's corporate income tax return, I'd say we let 'em put anything they want in the curriculum.
Now, you simply must understand that We the People cannot possibly allow these churches to provide substandard religious indoctrination, right? Which is why, when I'm elected president, I will introduce the No Child of God Left Behind Act. We are going to make sure all churches preach the Word of God properly, so we're going to test each parishioner on an annual basis. If too many of the parishioners flunk, we have many options including extra study materials, a new preacher (hey, it's not MY fault if we accidentally slip up and send a Pastafarian minister to a Holy Roller church) additional study materials and vouchers to buy enough gas to take you to a better church. And if, by the year 2017, all of the parishioners in your church are not up to Faith Level, we'll strip your church of its accreditation and close it.
Will they bitch about the concept that the state shouldn't meddle in the affairs of the church? Of course they will, but that never stopped them from trying to meddle in the affairs of state.
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