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Parents do not send children to parochial and private schools simply because they want better education. The primary purpose of most church schools, for example, is to provide religious education--whether Adventist, Baptist, Catholic, Jewish, or Muslim. If you want to see the United States of America as balkanized as Europe, support the school voucher or "choice" proposition. Ever increasing economic, political, racial, and religious segregation is unavoidable through a school voucher plan because it will …

…barriers will be erected against the practice of any religion." (Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be, Pocket Star Books, paperback, 1993, p. 281). Rush is wrong; the establishment clause does not say "state" religion. In America all religion is to be supported voluntarily, not with public funds or government promotion. Public money should no more be used for the secular functions and requirements of a church school than for a church--regardless of how beneficial to society.