US Supreme Court ruled today taxpayers have no standing to object to Arizona's decision to divert money from their public education department to religious schools. A conservative court said to tax payers the state may give your money to religious entities as it sees fit. Separation of church and state is on life support now, and I expect it will die soon. The remedy for this may be a backlash or legal challenge possible stimulated by Muslims, Hindu's and Witches demanding their cut of the pie. If our tax money will now support Mormon schools and daycare at Our Lady of Perpetual Pedophilia, then we must also give it to the Madrassa.
Note: A few days ago Kansas passed a law stating that Kansas's laws are the law of Kansas and Islamic Shria law is not and never will be. Wow, glad they cleared that up! But this says something else. This says the Republican's in overwhelming control of the legislature believe religious laws can supersede state laws. Yet, they moved to selectively eliminate it for one minority. This action points out the far-rights religious intentions are like the bikini conundrum, "what you see is important, what you don's see is critical".
the yellow fringe:
ReplyDeleteVouchers and diversion of money to religious entities. Looks like the beginning of the end for public schools.
The hole get deeper.
Talk about judicial activism ...
ReplyDeleteWait a minute. I'm still looking for the Sharia bikini! Wonder if it's over at Sarge's site.......
ReplyDeleteI can't find this story anywhere, YF. Can you help me out?
ReplyDeleteNAC,
ReplyDeleteThere are a number of reports on this, I can't find the one I first saw, but this one reports it, in somewhat different terms, but the jest is the same.
http://www.jconline.com/article/20110406/OPINION01/104060302/Court-s-ruling-won-t-end-all-voucher-issues?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp
Skinny,
ReplyDeleteSarge may have it.
Whit,
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning. Public education is what made this nation, not religious schools though they contributed, not home schooling which is for the most part only possible when you have a middle class able to afford the stay at home parent, and certainly not schools for profit which have as mixed a record as public schools but are free to suppress the down-side news.