Supreme Court Rules Taxpayers Must Fund Religious Schools

[arewethereyet]

The Catholic Jr. Sr. High School I went to became a hybrid of public and private between my 7th and 8th grade years. I am not sure how it was structured but it was basically because the Catholic school could not offer all the non-core courses and was losing kids to the public school a couple towns over and those schools were full to overflowing. They moved the Brothers out of their residence behind the school and turned it into offices and classrooms that were run and managed by the public school system.

I don't think stepping over that line is a new thing considering I graduated in 1975.

[Skep]

Not surprising....They are ripping our heritage and our freedoms right out from under our noses...Pretty soon they are going to rename the US something else and I will leave at it that.

Well, if they’re look for new names, I’d like to offer a few suggestions:

-Europe, Jr

-Gunlandia

-Canada With Anger Issues

-Nambia

I’m sure there’s more, but those should get the discussion going.

Boru

Not exactly what I had in mind......

[AFTT47]

This will backfire when private schools that serve Muslims or Jews also ask for the same funding. Then it will be a violation.

This is the thinking the ACLU has used when it comes to school prayer. They rarely represented atheists in these cases but they would jump at the chance to represent a Jew, say, who objected to a Christian prayer. I predict they will do the exact same thing here. They'll actively seek out minority religious institutions who are denied and make a very public case of it. It's an effective strategy. It's very difficult or impossible to make the case that funds can go to a Christian school but not a Muslim one.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Well, if they’re look for new names, I’d like to offer a few suggestions:

-Europe, Jr

-Gunlandia

-Canada With Anger Issues

-Nambia

I’m sure there’s more, but those should get the discussion going.

Boru

Not exactly what I had in mind......

What DID you have in mind, then? I mean, if the name is going to change, you may as well get ahead of the curve.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

The Dictatorship of Cofveve

[Mister Agenda]

I'm going to be the contrarian on this one. The ruling was to treat private religious schools the same as other private schools, and that it was religious discrimination to deny funds to a school solely based on it being a religious school if it would have gotten the funding if it weren't a religious school. I want the government to be as neutral as possible when it comes to religion; and this seems compatible with that expectation.

It WILL be amusing when a private Muslim school expects the same funding and appeals to this ruling if it's denied, though; I can't front.

[Brian37]

This will backfire when private schools that serve Muslims or Jews also ask for the same funding. Then it will be a violation.

I think Jewish schools will be fine, but I’d like to see a rise in pagan schools asking for funding.

I am thinking more along the lines of Muslim private schools. But yea, any non Christian school parents who get denied  will sue.

[Rev. Rye]

The reason I chose pagan schools is because I can remember a caller on Atheist Experience (back in the Stone Age) talking about how they used to be all in support of publicly-funded school prayer, and how they were at first delighted at finding out that their school's football team prayed before each game, but when they found out it was a traditional Hawaiian prayer, they did a 180 because yeah, it's different finding out how it feels to be on the other end of the alienation scale.

Hell, I'd love to see them freaking out if, somehow, there was a Santeria school that requested federal funding for rituals that involved, say, a chicken getting its throat slit in front of children.