Yay, vouchers! Parents should be able to send their kids to any school! Oh, wait, you mean any school?
From Think Progress:
Louisiana Republicans supported Gov. Bobby Jindal’s overhaul of the state’s education system, which includes a voucher program that allows state funds to be used to send students to religiously-affiliated schools – until they began to realize that Islamic schools could also be among the institutions supported by taxpayer funds.
Rep. Valarie Hodges (R-Watson) voted for Jindal’s bill in the Louisiana House, but has since withdrawn her support for the measure because she now realizes that it “unfortunately” applies more broadly:
HODGES: I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America’s Founding Fathers’ religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools…Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders’ religion. We need to insure that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools. There are a thousand Muslim schools that have sprung up recently. I do not support using public funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana.
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Will it be Mississippi, Alabama or Louisiana?
Just call it the “Religious Freedom Act” and I’m sure a majority of GOPers will vote for it without reading the fine print.
Comment of the week! Great line.
My sense is that most were Episcopalian, Congregational, and some Catholic and Jews.
But what I call the “Heavy Hitters” of the founding of the nation were definitely not conventionally religious. Lots of Deism – no church there – and outright atheism and skepticism. George Washington went to Anglican church with his wife and always left before communion, much to the recorded chagrin of the priests. Franklin hated the Puritanism he grew up with. Jefferson occasional attended a proto-Unitarian congregation and famously cut out all of Jesus’ miracles to make the Jefferson Bible. The Adams family were Unitarians.
I want to get vouchers for a deistic school.
exemplified here. I want these things for myself, just not for anyone else. Dress it up anyway you want, but thats all it is.
When the source for future solutions is in the past, you do what you did and get what you got. Forever. (praise be to god)
….Then scrolled down to see it had its own post.
Guess this is Christian bigot day in the Republican Party!
of “at least he’s not your representative.”
I mean dodging child support for years, and telling Duckworth that giving up a couple of limbs in the service of our country doesn’t make her a hero, and then condescendingly saying, Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleigh to a CNN reporter a mere 93 times. . .
Almost (but not quite) makes Coffman look less buffonish.
Religious freedom for me but not for thee.
Hoist, meet petard.
In fact, the only REAL religion is Christian. Because it says so right there in the Bible!
That’s as ridiculous as the idea that his eyes weren’t blue.
No Jewish mama would have let her son go unmarried that long. He would have been betrothed by 13 for sure.
Hold your nose, jump in, make a few kids and no one gives you shit.
Other possibilities about Jesus that have been proposed include him being married, you know, that whole Miriam of Magdala legend, or, that he was married to an unknown woman and was a widower by the time he started his work.
I’m pretty sure you’re doing ti wrong.
Good on ya’
I don’t think the Louisiana legislator is confused at all. I think the attitude reflected in the comments is an indication of the way the Christians usually view things: there religion is the only religion, or at least the only religion that matters.
I am looking forward to the day when a madrassa opens its doors in Douglas County. That will get the wingers in the Wilcox Building to pay attention!
Please do not use “the Christians” when referring to these whackos. Use “Fundamentalist Christians”, or “Dominionist Christians” or even “Radical Right Regressionist Republicans”, but please do not tar the religion for these jerks who’ve come in and tried to take over “rightful ownership” of the brand.
Thanks.