All Posts Tagged With: "Faith-Based Initiative"
Last Taxpayer Standing
You’d think that if the people are the masters and government is the servant, taxpayers could sue when their money was spent in ways that violate their rights. But that’s not how the courts see the matter. Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, once again, that mere taxpayer status confers no standing to sue [...]
1Oct2007 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedPublic Money for Private Charity
After years of being shunned and even persecuted, Christians suddenly enjoyed the official blessing of the Roman state when Emperor Constantine came to power in 324 A.D. For the first time, imperial funds were used to subsidize priests and churches. Christians emerged from hiding in Rome’s catacombs to partake of the state’s largess. A faith that might have saved an empire was thus corrupted and in the end proved to be a futile safeguard against Rome’s ultimate destruction at the hands of barbarians a century and a half later.
1Aug2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 3 comments | Continued-
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