Dan of the County: No Problem w/Salvation Army Link

Side Note: No doubt membership in the Salvation Army church will skyrocket. Who wouldn’t want to go to a church that has an Olympic-sized swimming pool and athletic center attached?

Buckssome: I am pro Kroc Center but I wonder if I would be pron to support Mr. Spencer if the partner was ie: LDS, Catholic, Hamas etc.. Are we guilty of averting our Eyes to the truth while keeping them on such a grand goal?

Dan of the County: As someone on an earlier post said, it’s not freedom from religion it’s freedom of religion. There are lots of examples of where the government tries to also address people’s spiritual needs on a voluntary basis. I think of chapels and chaplains in prisons, public hospital chapels, and of course there must be tens of thousands of chaplains that have served in our armed forces over time. And of course the current administration (which I’m no fan of on other issues) has made partnerships of spiritual and temporal activities a matter of public policy and support through their office of faith based initiatives. As a CDA native I am very, very happy that a community center will finally become a reality and I for one am all the more happy that it may also provide spiritual resources and strengths for those who desire them as well as meeting physical and social needs.