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26. Hold on. I don't doubt this crosses a line somewhere, but state/federal funding for...

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 12:06 PM

Jun 2020

nonreligious aspects of religious schools has always been around.

Some of these schools infuse things like sports and dance class with religion, but I went to Martin Luther High School in the '60s and after Sputnik shook us up, we were, like just about every school in the country, gifted with brand new science labs and some cash to hire teachers. We got fully stocked bio, chem, and physics labs that were extremely popular. We also got 50 Selectric typewriters for a typing lab.

The idea was to spark science education, and we had to keep religion out of it. The bio classes were allowed to not teach evolution, but they couldn't rip the pages out of the texts or forbid us from reading them. Or talk abut it.

The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations pushed these programs, Congress and the peolpe were pretty solidly behind them. It was education, not religion, that was being pushed.

Yes, I understand times are different now, and religion is taking precedence over science in too many quarters, but I am not so sure about a backlash that could hurt the education part.

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Supreme Court opens door to state funding for religious schools [View all] brooklynite Jun 2020 OP

Is the USSC saying that if ALL private schools were banned from receiving this state funding, no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #1

I think so William Seger Jun 2020 #3

Sounds like it Coleman Jun 2020 #5

Link to decision (pdf) blaze Jun 2020 #11

Therefore the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment "trumps" no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #22

Probably as long as the school funding does not act as an establishment of religion. Steelrolled Jun 2020 #29

Here come the completely indefensible SC rulings... BlueIdaho Jun 2020 #2

Again, will the state scholarship program allow scholarships . . Iliyah Jun 2020 #4

Maybe the Satanic Temple or humanist group would like to see Coleman Jun 2020 #9

Now THAT might change things! BComplex Jun 2020 #14

Exactly njhoneybadger Jun 2020 #18

Now it will LeftInTX Jun 2020 #27

I may get flamed for this, but based on my understanding, I agree with this decision. Here's why... CaptainTruth Jun 2020 #37

The dumbing down of America will accelerate and the religious influence of State politicians walkingman Jun 2020 #6

So it's up to states to decide. Where 90% of public education funding is, anyway. ancianita Jun 2020 #7

Vomit. Laelth Jun 2020 #8

Time to turn off the spigot. NOW! Cartaphelius Jun 2020 #10

That's got to be decided state by state, since education isn't a fundamental constitutional right. ancianita Jun 2020 #12

Actually, the Constitution Cartaphelius Jul 2020 #40

It already is supported by taxes. Show me the real estate tax bill on some church and rzemanfl Jun 2020 #16

Private schools should not be funded by taxpayer dollars! csziggy Jun 2020 #31

Get your FUCKING CHURCH out of my government!! Coventina Jun 2020 #13

I bet if you started a Druid school it would get defunded quickly on the basis of religion /nt bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #15

let's see what the evangicals say when other religions start applying for the same funding samsingh Jun 2020 #17

If a religious school angrychair Jun 2020 #19

Is that what the opinion of the court says? I haven't had a chance to read it. Politicub Jun 2020 #25

What it should be angrychair Jun 2020 #28

In essence, the government will fund the teaching of make-believe (religion) as if it were factual. stopbush Jun 2020 #20

Roberts throws a bone to right wing identity politics. jalan48 Jun 2020 #21

Bingo. /nt spudspud Jun 2020 #30

Roberts is turning out to be the swing vote on the Court. He voted with the liberals on a couple of totodeinhere Jun 2020 #23

I will never be okay with my tax dollars going to schools that actively discriminate against LGBTQ Politicub Jun 2020 #24

Hold on. I don't doubt this crosses a line somewhere, but state/federal funding for... TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 #26

Then we should demand our tax dollars only support public education. sinkingfeeling Jun 2020 #32

Exactly ibegurpard Jul 2020 #39

So the solution is to pull all state funding from private schools. roamer65 Jun 2020 #33

No state funds to any private school pfitz59 Jun 2020 #34

Smells like Corporate Socialism to me,,,, Cryptoad Jun 2020 #35

Bullshit................... turbinetree Jun 2020 #36

Agreed. Cartaphelius Jul 2020 #41

The rationale behind this is kind of hard to deny ibegurpard Jul 2020 #38