Eeewwww! Did I mention eeeewwwww!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/22/louisiana.church/index.html
and again, eeeewwww.
Psycho christians. Yeah, doing the lords work, clearly. These people claimed, at one time, to be christians. How can the government keep giving money to any of these whack-jobs. How can you tell which are somewhat decent folk, and which are sociopaths that need to go away? You cannot, until you catch them being seriously f'd up felons.
Separation of Church and State. Repeat that to your legislators. Louder, they cannot seem to hear the rational humans over the roar of the Religious Right (which is neither, but that is for another entry).
Then, he tells me that his wife gets on his case for giving too much to the Church. "Well, it's a good cause," he tells me. I respond with "Feeding yourself is a good cause, too." Then he starts quoting Bible verses at me about "the Lord will take care of his own," and so on. My last words before I left: "The Lord isn't working on fixing Social Security."