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By Ben Jones
Rappahannock News Writer
Maybe it’s just me, and true, I haven’t read the fine print, but it seems to me that the so-called “Faith Based Initiative” just passed by the U.S. House should never become law. Here, good intentions are being used once again to pave the proverbial path to hell.
Government of any sort has always supposedly acted on behalf of the collected governed to hopefully improve the common good. Even history’s most notorious, barbaric, and misguided governments always thought they were doing the right thing. And the world’s great religions have explicit and implicit beliefs and standards that require righteous and beneficial behavior. But great problems have arisen when church and state are one and the same, or when their purposes are hopelessly co-mingled.
Our founders, recognizing this, opposed the creation of a Natural religion. As Jefferson once famously said, the purpose of the “establishment tliiuse” in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution is to create “a wall of separation between church and State.”
On July 19, the Republican ■ majority in the House rejected
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