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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1420897
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1420897
I wonder if this will mean anything for odd school districts like Bryn Athen PA
How about some madrasa funding??
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bitinginsect forgot to “Frist.”
Religious groups can discriminate against everybody they want, but cannot be discriminated against .
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Can’t wait to enjoy the shitshow when Madrassas and Yeshivas start demanding equal time. Because you know these Opus Dei freaks were only talking about their imaginary friend Jeebus.
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Beat me to it.
I feel that if religious schools now are eligible for state funding, they should also be required to follow all rules and regulatory oversight by the state. It would also make sense to me that we should start taxing all religious institutions and require them to follow all civil rules concerning discrimination and to subject them to civil, state, and federal laws. Let’s level the playing field.
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YES!!! Take government money, play by government rules.
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Expect the 6 Christian nationalist theocrats on the Supreme Court to find a way to reject “religious liberty” claims made by Muslims and Jews.
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I’m also thinking of a Flying Spaghetti Monster School of Pasta or something similar. Give me my $$$!
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Chief Justice John Roberts declared that the Maine program “effectively penalizes the free exercise of religion.”
I must have missed the part of the Maine program that denied the students and their families the free exercise their religion. According to this Court, free exercise now means without cost to the practitioner.
As @mondfledermaus pointed out, free exercise now allows the pious to deny “a neutral benefit program in which public funds flow" to the general public (Hobby Lobby) but prohibits the state the ability to deny “a neutral benefit program in which public funds flow" to the religious.
Silly rabbit, that would interfere with the free exercise of their religion. This Court is busily crafting “sincerely held religious beliefs” exemptions from secular laws that deny the Xtian fundamentalists their god given right discriminate against anyone who does subscribe to their belief system.
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We will now have classes called , “Please the Priest, or Preacher, 101”.
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“Silly rabbit, that would interfere with the free exercise of their religion.”
Agree. Honestly. And my religion is now not to pay for any religion that effectively operates as a tax-free corporation that is designed to condemn those who disagree with them.
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Who makes the rules. Or more specifically, who is re-crafting the rules?
And for all the “religious liberty” flung about by these people, ultimately it is a grift by those on high. I am sure the De Vos family must be uncorking the champagne and letting it flow.
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I’m trying to figure out who I can sue for a refund of all the tuition I paid for our kids to go to St. Jeanne De Lestonnac. Those years put a serious dent in my free exercise bank account.
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When, as the parents in Carson alleged, state actions limit fundamental rights such as free exercise of religion, courts apply what is called “strict scrutiny,” meaning that public officials must prove they have a “compelling interest” in restricting such a right. When the Supreme Court applies “strict scrutiny,” as it did in Carson, state restrictions typically fail.
So, if I understand this correctly, the parents are claiming the state is violating their right to a publicly funded religious education. Is that correct? Citizens have a constitutional right to publicly funded religious education???
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The decision is obviously religiously motivated but also its logic is ridiculous. If parents are to be able to do anything they want…and that just called choice…why not pitch all the rules and let them do anything they like. Hand it all over to folks with zero expertise in education. It’s their choice.
Soon we’ll be able to choose 120 mph on the highway.
It didn’t take long for the Barrett / Alito Court to prove itself. Much more to come.
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Not exactly. The ruling ( if I have it right ) is limited to rural parts of Maine where no public schools exist. In those areas Mainers can send their kids to the closest school…if that’s a private one they get financial assistance. This ruling says that if that school teaches the Bible rather than reading, writing and arithmetic…it’s all OK.
But come on. This is the inch they take first. The mile…public money for religious schools, churches and religious organizations in just around the corner. Coz that what our Founder REALLY meant when they said don’t do this. They meant do it. Ask Amy and the Boyz.
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They have right to a publicly funded christian religious education. Will a Muslim or Druid school even be allowed to be established? I doubt it. At the current rate of slide into religio-fascism we’ll see a “president” crowned by a bishop in a church soon.
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