• A wealthy Texas doctor and fundamentalist Christian activist, James
Leininger, is so determined to see vouchers in the state that he using a
political action committee to pour millions into the coffers of pro-voucher
legislative candidates.

Using public documents, the Texas Freedom Network determined that Leininger
donated more than $1.8 million to the Texas Republican Legislative Campaign
Committee, $495,000 to the Future of Texas Alliance and $13,000 to the
Texas Club for Growth. The total comes to $2,315,443.25.

Leininger is funding the political action committee to finance Republican
primary opponents challenging five GOP members of the Texas House who
opposed vouchers last year.

"These gigantic donations are breathtaking," Texas Freedom Network's Kathy
Miller said in a press release. "In Jim Leininger's gamble to buy the
legislature, he just went all in. And if he wins, private schools will take
the pot and public schools will foot the bill."

Texas Freedom Network (TFN) accuses the Texas Republican Legislative
Campaign Committee of breaking state election laws and asked the Texas
Ethics Commission to investigate. According to TFN, the political action
committee has been making campaign donations even though it has not
collected contributions from at least 10 people, as required by state law.

SOURCE: People & Events, Church & State, Vol. 59 No. 4, April 2006
Americans United monthly publication, p 20

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You are invited to check out the following:

The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm

American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm

The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html

[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]

HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/

[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]

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. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote

"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"

That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.

It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
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