Should the state pay clergy salaries?
The state pays the salaries of ministers of recognised religions.
- Continue, religions provide a social service
- Reform towards voluntary funding by believers
- End all public funding
What's at stake: This issue divides both camps: it pits the social role recognised to religions against the idea that their believers should fund them.
For
religions provide social and moral services that are useful to society as a whole.
Against
in a neutral state, believers, not taxpayers, should fund their religion.
This issue doesn't follow the left/right divide. It doesn't count towards the test score.
And you, where do you stand?
Answer 30 situations like this one and find out where you stand, topic by topic.