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In Louisiana, Republican Governor Bobby Jindal pushed for a voucher program that would allow state funds to be used to pay for religious schools. It’s unconstitutional, it’s a way to use taxpayer money to fund someone’s faith, and it was a bad idea to begin with.

But it passed.

Now, one of the state legislators, Rep. Valarie Hodges (R-Watson), just made a shocking discovery, though: Christianity isn’t the only religion!

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Originally posted by ANTHONYT:
Hello,

I thoroughly enjoy it when ill-conceived laws bite their authors and supporters in the posterior.

--Anthony



Note to Self:

Raptor is pretty much always right. And by 'right', I mean correct, accurate and true in how he sees the world.

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Originally posted by ANTHONYT:
Hello,

I thoroughly enjoy it when ill-conceived laws bite their authors and supporters in the posterior.

--Anthony

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So, vouchers are an ill-conceived idea ? Letting the individuals decide on how they want to spend their educational dollars isn't a good idea?

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

Oh don't EEEEEEEEEEEven get me started....
State sanctioned religion is a serious pet peeve of mine, and this laptop will not survive my ire should I get on a rant about it.

-F

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Letting the individuals decide on how they want to spend their educational dollars isn't a good idea?

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Do you support the use of vouchers to send children to Islamic madrassas?

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Educational TAX dollars. No, it's not--if it allows TAX dollars to support religious education.

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Letting the individuals decide on how they want to spend their educational dollars isn't a good idea?

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Educational TAX dollars. No, it's not--if it allows TAX dollars to support religious education.

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Originally posted by fivver:
So let me understand. When it comes to being forced to provide procedures that their religion finds objectionable (birth control) in their employee's insurance they are secular institutions and subject to the law. Now when it comes to accepting educational vouchers you're saying that they are religious institutions and this violates the constitution. Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense.

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Educational TAX dollars. No, it's not--if it allows TAX dollars to support religious education.

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The religion of big govt, Christianity, Judaism, or which ever... it should be up to the individual.

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Educational TAX dollars. No, it's not--if it allows TAX dollars to support religious education.

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Hello,

I find it all to be a delicious irony. Finding themselves unable to fully transform public schools into Christian schools, these so-called conservatives found a way to finance Christian schools and make it affordable to send their children there.

This was the ill conception. It was not conceived as a means to allow free choice. It was conceived as a means to support Christian education.

It becomes glaringly obvious that 'freedom' was not the motivating factor when one sees the alarm expressed that people might freely choose non-Christian religious education.

If the law had been conceived with an eye towards freedom, the GOP would rejoice at its intended outcome: That people enjoy their diverse freedom of choice in all its forms.

No, it was a law designed to finance religion, but only their religion. An ill-conceived law with unintended consequences- all religious schools may benefit. Ooops.

These so-called conservatives are lovers of freedom- but only the freedom to choose as they prefer.

--Anthony






Note to Self:
Raptor - woman testifying about birth control is a slut (the term fits.)
Six - Wow, isn't Niki quite the CUNT? And, yes, I spell that in all caps....
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -Thomas Szasz

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