« on: July 01, 2001, 05:18:24 PM »
Yeeeeee Haaaawwwwww!!
New York Times article
[link=http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/6/szalavitz-m.html]Why Jesus is Not a Regulator[/link]
by Maia Szalavitz
One of the primary goals of President George W. Bush's new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is "to eliminate unnecessary legislative, regulatory, and other bureaucratic barriers that impede effective faith-based and other community efforts to solve social problems." Bush has said that America needs more "faith-based treatment" for addiction and juvenile delinquency and that he would like to "promote alternative licensing regimes to recognize religious training as an alternative form of qualification."
Bad idea. Even leaving aside the dubious constitutionality of government financial support for religious services, deregulation is a recipe for disaster. Recent experience shows why.
Over the last 10 years, more than two dozen teenagers have died in so-called "tough love" rehabilitation facilities that use violent confrontation and exposure to primitive living conditions as a means to a cure.
[link=http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/6/szalavitz-m.html]Full Text[/link]
Some days it just all seems worth it! -If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse
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