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Morons in the News: Your Tax Dollars at Work: Funding Religious Publications Posted by spatula on Mar. 13, 2003 (16 comments from readers) A charter school in Kansas has been taking federal money and using it to print religious texts... and the right winger memes go flying... The Mid-Kansas Independent Academy in Moundridge has been using public funding to buy such texts as "Children's Bible Handbook" and "Exploring God's World: Science" according to The Kansan. To most people with functional brain parts, this is an obvious violation of the First Amendment separation of church and state. Buying religious materials with public money is a no-no. But wait, there's more! Superintendent Rustin Clark pulled out the latest in right-wing memes: not spending public funds to establish religion is "discrimination". He actually said this: "If we allow people to use curriculums they feel are best for their learning style but we don't allow them to use materials from certain publishers because they are faith-based publishers, we are discriminating." Well that might be true if the curriculum was a secular one. I don't care who happens to put the ink on the paper be it Zondervan or Harcord, so long as the contents are not proselytizing religion. But "Children's Bible Handbook?" I very much doubt a text with that name could have a non-religious content. Let's be very clear about this: it is not discrimination to obey the First Amendment to the Constitution, much as the right-wing would like you to believe that it is. Government funds should not be supporting religion. That's part of the whole point of the thing. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
