This week the Supreme Court issues decisions on: Abortion 2nd Amendment Religious Liberty Immigration Climate change Civil rights
The court again ruled against religious freedom by saying citizens can be required to pay for Christian religious indoctrination.
Seems like the simple solution here would just be to create public schools in those areas. 3 kids? That's fine.
There are public schools. Also private secular schools. And religious schools. State prohibited tax money going to religious schools. Radical right wing activists on court said discrimination against Christians. ABM, typically, lives it, not being big on First Amendment, but wonder how he would react if Islamic school wanted his tax money?
I thought the Supreme Court ruled that state money could go to religious schools only when there were no public schools?
No. Maine offers tuition assistance for private schools with stipulation that it not be used for religious schooling, Vermont has similar law. Court said has to include church schools. Any time Christians demand rights over rest of us it's called religious freedom. Deny employees birth control? Refuse services to gays? Violate public health mandates during pandemic? Sectarian prayer at public events? Health care workers refuse to provide health care? Just say Jesus and hallelujah, it's legal.
Hmm... In that case, maybe cut off all funding for private schools. Everybody can just go to public schools unless they want to pay out of pocket.
What a concept! Sounds exactly how it was when I was a kid in the '60's and '70's. My folks didn't want to send my siblings and I to what they considered substandard public schools (even though one was literally right next door), so they exercised their constitutional right to pay for Catholic schools out of their own pockets. The only "government funding" those schools got was surplus food for hot lunches (Basically the leftovers after the public schools got theirs). If parents want their kids to have a religious education, then it is on the parents of those kids to pay for it. I damn sure don't want my tax dollars going to fund whack job ideas. We can already see the negative effects religious "education" has had on the current Republican Party.......
The other thing that strikes me is that the right does not want any kind of teaching that will make (white) people uncomfortable (CRT, slavery, homosexuality, trans issues, etc, etc, etc) but they want the a constitutional "right" to force their religion in the faces of a majority who either aren't interested, don't believe in it, or who believe that religion is a personal matter. AND they want us to pay for the "privilege". It's like they wear their hypocrisy like a badge of pride. Next it will be Republican Sharia Law for the masses. And anyone who believes that to be hyperbole is an ignorant, brain dead moron.........
