Oklahoma attorney general sues to stop US's first public religious school
Oklahoma attorney general sues to stop US's first public religious school
Oklahoma's Republican attorney general has filed a lawsuit to stop what would be the nation's first publicly funded religious school.
Well kudos to him for being a Republican standing up for the constitutional separation of church and state.
Apparently that's not what he's standing up for. They're not the right religion. When Republicans make decisions, the seeing irrational or against their normal behavior. Always assume there's bigotry tied to it.
Not saying you're wrong, but the article gives absolutely no evidence that this is the case.
Don't get me wrong, he clearly knows that the day that school gets established, the Satanic Temple is going to come marching right on in. More importantly, so is everyone attempting to establish schools for Jewish students and Muslims as well, and God knows they won't have any of that going on. He's definitely trying to keep "them" out, and we all know what I mean when I say "them". But there's no indication he's in favor of any one particular religion, either. At least, not publicly.
It seems to be more on the side of "No, that means my religion as well. Not because I'd be against it, but because I can't let them establish one without letting brown people do the same thing. You don't want one of those schools next door to you, do you?"
And hey, if that's what it takes to keep religion out of schools, I'm all for it. Silver linings and all that.
He seems to grasp that all religions should be prohibited from getting state funds.
From the article:
“Make no mistake, if the Catholic Church were permitted to have a public virtual charter school, a reckoning will follow in which this state will be faced with the unprecedented quandary of processing requests to directly fund all petitioning sectarian groups,” the lawsuit states.
not with my fucking tax dollars you aren't. good on this guy for fighting back
He happens to be on the right side of this issue, but from the totally wrong direction. He's against it because those scary Muslims might open a school too.
Make no mistake, if the Catholic Church were permitted to have a public virtual charter school, a reckoning will follow in which this State will be faced with the unprecedented quandary of processing requests to directly fund all petitioning sectarian groups...For example, this reckoning will require the State to permit extreme sects of the Muslim faith to establish a taxpayer funded public charter school teaching Sharia Law. Consequently, absent the intervention of this Court, the Board members’ shortsighted votes in violation of their oath of office and the law will pave the way for a proliferation of the direct public funding of religious schools whose tenets are diametrically opposed by most Oklahomans.
In its application, the Archdiocese said its vision is that the school “participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out."
I think this is the closest you'd ever get them on tape to admitting that they want to brainwash your kids into Evangelicals
While Catholics consider themselves evangelical, I wouldn't lump them directly in with the greater "Evangelical" label.
That said, I highly doubt these Catholics are Jesuits out to offer a quality education considering the plan is to do an online K-12 school. Should be rejected on that alone.
Edit: Yeah, this archbishop is a Benedictine that was appointed by Ratzinger and signed off on a letter calling for an investigation into Francis. He's one of the shitty ones.
Every Republican is for fully tax-payer funded religious schools until the phrase "tax-payer supported Muslim madrasa" is uttered. Then, it is back to the weird game of religious home-schooling and particular state-approved partially religious charter schools that are only one from religion.
Yeah it's pretty telling that pretty much all the taxpayer funded religious stuff goes away real fast when it gets opened up to any other religion. Whether it be prayers at meetings, school clubs and programs, etc. The Satanic Temple has done a lot of that.
Based Republican W. Never thought I'd say that after dubya
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Friday sued to stop a state board from establishing and funding what would be the nation’s first religious public charter school after the board ignored Drummond’s warning that it would violate both the state and U.S. constitutions.
“Make no mistake, if the Catholic Church were permitted to have a public virtual charter school, a reckoning will follow in which this state will be faced with the unprecedented quandary of processing requests to directly fund all petitioning sectarian groups,” the lawsuit states.
In its application, the Archdiocese said its vision is that the school “participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out.”
The approval of a publicly funded religious school is the latest in a series of actions taken by conservative-led states that include efforts to teach the Bible in public schools, and to ban books and lessons about race, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Oklahoma’s Constitution specifically prohibits the use of public money or property from being used, directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any church or system of religion.
“Not only is this an irreparable violation of our individual religious liberty, but it is an unthinkable waste of our tax dollars,” Drummond said in a statement.
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my school to Dionysus is on hold, then
One of the very few times I agree with the elephant camp.
