In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
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Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#2For those who are more knowledgeable: is this bait for a conservative SCOTUS decision a few years down the road and/or do these legislators think state government should directly fund religious (educational) organizations?
If the latter, I doubt the legislators would support funding non-Christian schools, so it’s bald-faced hypocrisy at best? I’m having difficulty understanding how someone rationalizes appropriating government funds for religious institutions.
Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#3I love tax dollars funding religious indoctrination, by an untaxed organization that has billions, if not trillions, of dollars of wealth even though the first amendment explicitly prohibits it.
I also love that these bigoted assholes claim to care about children while bankrolling an organization that actively promotes child abuse, suppresses evidence of said abuse, blames the child victims, uses bankruptcy (despite aforementioned wealth) to avoid any liability, and then claims that not reporting child abuse is a requirement of their religion so is protected by the same first amendment that prohibits this funding.
Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#4For those who are more knowledgeable: is this bait for a conservative SCOTUS decision a few years down the road and/or do these legislators think state government should directly fund religious (educational) organizations? If the latter, I doubt the legislators would support funding non-Christian schools, so it’s bald-faced hypocrisy at best? I’m having difficulty understanding how someone rationalizes appropriating…
they're a bunch of pro-child abuse bigots, so of course its hypocrisy.
Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#5So, court case probably gets to be brought by Ohio Education Association union as plaintiff as they are losing out on the funding to invalidate the budget as unlawful according to the Ohio constitution?
Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#6"courts have long given voucher programs a pass, ruling that they don’t violate the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state because a publicly funded voucher technically passes through the conduit of a parent on the way to a religious school."
Oh wow, I didn't realize all it took to break the law was a middleman. This is why intent of law matters, not just the letter of it.
Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#7For those who are more knowledgeable: is this bait for a conservative SCOTUS decision a few years down the road and/or do these legislators think state government should directly fund religious (educational) organizations? If the latter, I doubt the legislators would support funding non-Christian schools, so it’s bald-faced hypocrisy at best? I’m having difficulty understanding how someone rationalizes appropriating…
Goes to show that America's reticence towards social programs is not ideological, but rather simply partisan. They are happy to socialize the regressive religious bullshit that they approve of.
Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#8For those who are more knowledgeable: is this bait for a conservative SCOTUS decision a few years down the road and/or do these legislators think state government should directly fund religious (educational) organizations? If the latter, I doubt the legislators would support funding non-Christian schools, so it’s bald-faced hypocrisy at best? I’m having difficulty understanding how someone rationalizes appropriating…
they're a bunch of pro-child abuse bigots, so of course its hypocrisy.
You wrote, and I quote exactly: I am sorry but your swipe there is so unwarranted and low effort, that it looks more like it's coming from a provocation plant trying to give liberals a bad name.
Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#9For those who are more knowledgeable: is this bait for a conservative SCOTUS decision a few years down the road and/or do these legislators think state government should directly fund religious (educational) organizations? If the latter, I doubt the legislators would support funding non-Christian schools, so it’s bald-faced hypocrisy at best? I’m having difficulty understanding how someone rationalizes appropriating…
Goes to show that America's reticence towards social programs is not ideological, but rather simply partisan. They are happy to socialize the regressive religious bullshit that they approve of.
A list of examples should be easy to provide.
Re: In unprecedented move, Ohio is funding construction of private religious schools
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
they're a bunch of pro-child abuse bigots, so of course its hypocrisy.
You wrote, and I quote exactly: """they're a bunch of pro-child abuse bigots, so of course its hypocrisy.""" I am sorry but your swipe there is so unwarranted and low effort, that it looks more like it's coming from a provocation plant trying to give liberals a bad name. Also for the record, I am pro-child!
There is a huge overlap between the "I want tax dollars to fund my religious ideology" and the people who say "lgbt kids should be punished", "sex education must be banned", "teenagers [girls] who have sex should be shamed", "child marriage is acceptable", etc.
All of those policies are inherently pro-child abuse.
Those are the same groups that also say "my religious freedom requires that I be allowed to require other people to follow my religion.
The only reason conservatives want publicly funded private schools is because they want to claim that the schools are (1) not public so don't have to obey the first amendment and (2) then reduce funding to actual public schools because they "can't afford it".
Anyone who claims otherwise is at best stupid.
This is the explicit intent of these policies.