TRICKIE Wrote:
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> Actually I have been thinking a lot about this
> pharmacy and the other venture under the same
> umbrella - Tepeyac Family Center in Fairfax. Both
> business ventures are supported by the Catholic
> church in many ways.
> Many business owner are pro choice, but they have
> to pay for their ads in the bulletin. I know the
> Tepeyac Family center also takes donations to
> cover the medical costs of their patients - many
> are unwed moms or moms without health insurance.
> A big part of their donations comes from local
> churches
>
Tepeyac Family Center in Fairfax may have survived not JUST because of its reputation or church donations but from indirect tax funded subsidies. Reston Interfaith and other non-profit groups receive grants from the County to support programs such as the Center.
http://www.restoninterfaith.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=15037
Because the grant money is allocated in a lump sum, with no specific use, it is next to impossible to know who benefits from these dollars. FYI: Since the closing of the Day Labor Center in Herndon, Reston Interfaith still uses a portion of it's County grant dollars to "work with illegal alien" day laborers.
When we indirectly support these non-profits, of course they will survive - even if a portion of the tax payers who support them are denied the right to fill certain prescriptions in their pharmacies.