Originally published at: Oklahoma school board approves nation's first taxpayer-funded religious school | Boing Boing
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And this is just the beginning. Minority rule enshrined in the highest court in the land for decades, and all because of a few tens of thousands of votes in three key states. This is why elections matter.
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Some might conclude that this is why elections do NOT matter!
(But I agree with you, here.)
Equally to the point, isn’t this why electoral reform matters?
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Another one of those “let’s see what the Alito Supreme Court can do for us” things.
I’m sure his “Originalist” interpretation of the Establishment Clause will be fascinating.
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It’ll be fasci-something, for sure.
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I bet the Oklahoma branch of the Satanic Temple has ideas… 
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He’ll find something from the 1400s to justify a state-sponsored religious school?
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Let’s pass laws that will get us elected, don’t care about the money we will have to spend to defend it and that we will probably lose any way. Good campaign slogan “Dang Activist Courts!”
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Come on Satanic Temple, you know what you have to do…
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Another one of those “let’s see what the Alito Supreme Court can do for us” things.
Actually, I don’t think it is… The state AG quote pegs this as violating the OK state constitution, which is not something SCOTUS has any say over. Unless these evangelical turds can argue - and convince the turds on SCOTUS - that this is so fundamental it warrants tossing out the 10th amendment to allow, this begins & ends in OK.
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They’re not hiding behind the “voucher” system anymore.
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When NYC rapidly expanded publicly funded PreK during DeBlasio’s tenure, they had nowhere near the infrastructure they needed to do it, so MANY of the seats ended up in religious schools, or their satellite programs. I’m sure there’s something in the contract about no religious instruction, but they’d be relying on 3 and 4 year olds to report their own indoctrination to weed that out. Also, guess which schools tend to have the most violations for fraudulent teaching credentials…
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So now people have to pay real money to teach kid imaginary bullshit.
Great!
Maybe the church can use their tithe to pay to teach their bullshit. This is literally have the cake and eat it too.
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The contortions will be especially interesting given that the body of people close enough in time and place to be quote mined skewed heavily against intermingling of catholic church and state; even if they weren’t necessarily fussed by the activities of churches not suspected of more loyalty to rome than to home.
I don’t doubt their mental flexibility; but the usual “stuff that looks blatantly like the establishment of a narrowly sectarian state church is actually non-religious civic and traditional symbolism…” nonsense will be a harder than usual sell given that, to the degree that that line isn’t just a lie, it has mostly been protestant flavors. Catholicism being considered for ‘it’s not religious because it’s blandly civic religion!’ status is at least as recent as irish and itallians being considered for whiteness.
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Taxpayer-funded? Then, I’m OK with that as long as the churches start paying taxes. The vanishing separation was the only rationale for the tax exemption, amiright, Supremes? Eh?
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I thought Evangelical Catholics were Lutherans? I wonder why the school board is calling it a Catholic school? Lutherans aren’t usually referred to as Catholics unless sarcastically. Seems strange.
I’m no expert, but I believe the term small-“e” evangelical can be applied to any religious sect as a modifier, as well as there being a big-“E” Evangelical group in Christianity.
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I’ll allow that. It’s a Roman Catholic School btw. I wonder why they chose a Catholic school to start this off?
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