Amtrack is federally subsidized

Post #114,929 by Arkadiy 8/22/03 12:59:02 PM 8/22/03 12:59:28 PM Reply	Amtrack is federally subsidized I ride an Amtrack train to attend a religious convention. Did I violate your rights? -- Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them. --Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum Edited by Arkadiy Aug. 22, 2003, 12:59:28 PM EDT Amtrack is federally subsidized I ride an Amtrack to attend a religious convention. Did I violate your rights? -- Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them. --Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum Collapse All History
Post #114,931 by bepatient 8/22/03 1:04:57 PM Reply	He wants his money back ;-) If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #114,934 by hnick 8/22/03 1:21:59 PM Reply	Silly, but it does raise an interesting point.. Using Amtrack is no different than using pubicly funded roads to go to church or convention. However... Suppose that a church or religious group of some size held a clearly non-secular event. They are expecting thousands. Should the city officials schedule extra busses or otherwise increase the availibility of transportation? It is their responsibility to provide public transportation. Is it reasonable to supprort, say a Star Trek convention, and not support say, a Billy Graham fest? I would think that it would be their responsibility to provide the transportation and ignore the motivation of the citizens. Keeping tabs of the motives of the people is not their responisbility. Following that line of reasoning then, I would think that it would be appropriate for public buildings to be used by any group as long as the criteria for use was the same for any and all groups who are interested. My basic faith in human nature leads me to believe that the implementation of this would be corrupted in no time, but the concept should be good.
Post #114,936 by admin 8/22/03 1:30:36 PM Reply	Exactly. The motivation should be moot. Those people pay taxes too. They should be allowed the use of public facilities to meet, just as they can ride the train, or the bus, or whatever. The fact that the Constitution's authors thought that religious discrimination was an important enough problem to be addressed explicitly should not be turned around into an excuse for discrimination against all religions. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."

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