2007.07.30
Comment on Monday's editorials
Humble faith lost in public prayer
Montgomery County Supervisors adopted a flawed ordinance to open their meetings with prayers.
The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors could have used some divine guidance before they voted to open future meetings with a prayer. Supervisors tried very hard to add an inherently exclusionary activity to their agendas without stepping on people's rights. Their prayers will be non-sectarian and invoke something called the "American civil religion," whatever that is in a nation whose constitution separates secular government from religion.
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Subsidy system stuck in a time warp
Politics may prevent a long-needed reform of the $21 billion farm subsidy program.
Congressional Democrats are more interested in protecting vulnerable farm-state incumbents than in trimming billions of wasteful spending from the farm subsidy program.
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