Should taxpayers have to fund private schools?
This week the Supreme Court heard a case over whether states must fund religious schools. In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the plaintiffs argue that their religious liberty is being violated after the Montana Supreme Court struck down a program that provides tax credits for donations to private school vouchers.
In their ruling, the state court cited a clause in the Montana constitution prohibiting “any direct or indirect appropriation or payment from any public fund or monies […] to aid any church” or religious school.
Justice Kavanaugh argued this provision advances “grotesque anti-Catholic bigotry,” citing 19th century Blaine amendments.
But Montana’s constitution was rewritten in 1972.
It’s worth noting here that Stillwater Christian School, where the plaintiffs send their children, advances anti-LGBTQ ideology. Another school that participates in the program expels students for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender conduct” and forces employees to sign an agreement that they “will not engage in such behaviors.”
Now, nobody is denying these private entities the right to teach whatever hate and bigotry they choose . And that dinosaurs and humans lived together.
And it’s perfectly within a parent’s right to protect their children from learning “Arabic numerals,”commonly referred to as “numbers.”
“But shouldn’t […] taxpayers also have a right not to subsidize these teachings, which may violate their own religious beliefs or freedom of conscience?” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2...
What’s missing from the argument is the underlying reason why parents send their children to private school. It’s called Polite White Supremacy.
That’s why some parents choose to take their kids out of their neighborhood public school, even when they learn it outperforms their “school of choice.”
And it’s why school segregation is worse today than it was before Brown v. Board.
Also missing from the discussion is how fourteen states — including Utah, North Carolina, Arizona, Indiana, and Florida — have provisions in their constitutions requiring a uniform system of schools. https://www.ecs.org/wp-content/upload...
But a separate and unequal system of unaccountable private schools is the antithetical to a uniform system.
Legal scholars say the ruling — expected in June — could fundamentally undermine the way the Founding Fathers established the separation between church and state.
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