Even President Bush's visit to a place called The Fishing School, a Washington, D.C., facility founded by a former policeman, which was designed to highlight the religious doctrine, raises fundamental questions. Fishing School founder Tom Lewis, one of 15 children, quit the police force after securing his pension and pledged his life to prayer. Lewis has been pleading for government subsidies ever since. Fishing for a handout does not teach the virtue of self-reliance. That Lewis' Fishing School is held as the best argument for the mixture of church and state underscores the fundamental contradictions between Bush's plan and America's basic ideals.
Truth can stand by itself.
Scott Holleran is a free-lance writer and a regular contributor to the Daily News.