this week the Supreme Court heard a case
over whether states should fund
religious schools in Espinosa the
Montana Department of Revenue the
plaintiffs argued their religious
liberties are being violated after the
Montana Supreme Court struck down a
program providing 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 work
religious school just as Cavanaugh
argued this provision advances grotesque
anti-catholic bigotry citing
nineteenth-century
Blaine amendments but the Montana
Constitution was rewritten in 1972 worth
noting here is that Stillwater Christian
school where the plaintiffs send their
children advances anti LGBTQ ideology
and another school that participates in
the program expels students for lesbian
gay bisexual and or transgender conduct
whatever that is and forces employees to
sign an agreement not to engage in such
behaviors now nobody is denying the
right of these private entities to teach
whatever hatred and bigotry they so
choose and that dinosaurs and humans
lived together and it's perfectly within
a parent's right to protect their
children from learning about Arabic
numerals more 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 missing from the discussion
is the underlying reason why parents
send their children to private school
polite white supremacy it's why parents
choose to take their children out of the
neighborhood public school even when
they learn it outperforms their school
of choice and it's why school
segregation is now worse than before
brown v board also missing from the
discussions how 14 states including Utah
North Carolina
Arizona and Florida all have provisions
written directly into their Constitution
requiring a uniform system of schools
but a separate and unequal system of
unaccountable private schools is
antithetical to a uniform system legal
scholars say the ruling expected in June
could fundamentally undermine the way
the founding fathers established a
separation between church and state if
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