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Oklahoma Supreme Court Rejects Publicly Funded Religious School Contract
The Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected a state contract to open the nation's first public religious charter school in a lopsided ruling that's unlikely to be the final word in a long legal fight.
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Basically, they were creating a state-funded Catholic religious public school.
#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-06-25 03:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
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And Republicans don't see the problem with that.
#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-25 03:14 PM | Reply
From Thomas Jefferson's 1802 "Letter to the Danbury Baptists" (www.loc.gov):
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-06-25 03:25 PM | Reply
"Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond"
This is of no consequence, but I had to assume this guy is from the family that's been one of the largest donors to Oklahoma State University....yep.
irrelevant but I'm glad he stopped that.
#4 | Posted by eberly at 2024-06-25 03:25 PM | Reply
Alito and Roberts will take care of this.
They will find a way to rewrite the constitution if necessary.
Judges for JEEBUS!
#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2024-06-25 04:25 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
I warned those stupid hippies not to gut public schools in favor of their precious charter schools.
But no I was ignored and now the future of education is corporations and religious schools.
#6 | Posted by Tor at 2024-06-25 05:07 PM | Reply
#3...
Spot on Doc, spot on...
#7 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-06-26 09:08 AM | Reply
This is good news for Okiehomie. The state is already giving too much money to affluent folks who want to send their children to private schools, at the expense of the state's woeful public schools. Rather than fix education, Okies are running from the issue, in part by schemes like this on-line Catholic school (and I'm Catholic, BTW). Oddly, there are not many Catholics in the state, but there are people who do not want to support public education and the societal benefits that come from an educated population. But in the Sooner or Later State an educated population is foreign to the current state of reality...
#8 | Posted by catdog at 2024-06-26 09:26 AM | Reply
Gutting public school systems to fund charter schools was one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas.
#9 | Posted by qcp at 2024-06-26 09:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Allowing religion to control society results in jet planes flying into buildings.
Stop the insanity.
#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-06-26 10:35 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
From Thomas Jefferson's 1802 "Letter to the Danbury Baptists" ...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) says she is "tired" of the long-standing separation between church and state in the U.S., adding that she believes "the church is supposed to direct the government."
"I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk " that's not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter and it means nothing like they say it does," Boebert said, earning a round of applause from the audience.
#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-26 11:15 AM | Reply
Letter aside, Boebert clearly does not understand the first amendment.
#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-06-26 11:17 AM | Reply
#11
Everyone should keep in mind that this comes from a person that did not finish high school. And she has probably only studied history and civics at an elementary level.
#13 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-06-26 03:53 PM | Reply
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