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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Ohio Will Use Taxpayer Money to Construct Private Religious Schools

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Ohio Will Use Taxpayer Money to Construct Private Religious Schools

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In an Unprecedented Move, Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools
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The state is giving millions in taxpayer dollars directly to private schools to help them renovate and expand their campuses. It may be the next frontier in the push to increase the use of school vouchers, proponents say.
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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    School of Satan incoming…

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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      Going to have the best band class in all of Ohio.

      🤘

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        The best damned band in the land

        • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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          Better than the Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton?

      • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Looks like midwestern metals back on the menu boyssss

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          Copper, Pyrite, LETS FUCKING GO!

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      law paused while they try to work out how to make it legal to only allow good Christian schools

      How it usually goes as soon as another religion tries to do it.

      Or puts up religious imagery

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    If ever a religious institution wanted a clear path to taxation, this is surely it.

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      well if we were following the rules this wouldn’t be happening in the first place.

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    This is bad. I’m so tired of people doing bad things. Stop undermining public education you donkeys.

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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      It is pathetic in a way how desperate they are to prop themselves up with taxpayer funds. They know their ideas can’t succeed on their own merits. They need state muscle to help coerce people to believe their myths.

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      Freeloading companies need to be taxed properly.

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    So that’s a prima facie violation of the establishment clause.

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      SCOTUS:

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        Heh, I didn’t realize we had an animated Clarence Thomas gif

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          It’s the judge in the Simpsons if you want to find more

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            Ahhhhhh I forgot about that character. Haven’t watched the Simpsons in ages

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              It’s hilarious that there’s a huge chance it’s still just Clarence Thomas.

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      Very faschy facie indeed

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    I’m a Fiscally Responsible Republican and I’d MUCH RATHER have My Taxdollars go to Church then to STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!

    -Ohio Republicans knowing their State REJECTED Federal Dollars to Feed Starving Children because it was Deemed Fiscally Irresponsible!

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      This is literally their thinking.

      They alone want to control who gets to benefit from charity. They want to be the arbiters of who is worthy of God’s love and who should suffer under his might.

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    When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

    • Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Richard Price.
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    Man… Whatever happened to separation of church and state

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      It got separated.

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        If we’re using tax payer money to fund religious private schools it ain’t separated

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          I meant that the separation of church and state got separated from our government.

          This is definitely a pretty clear violation of the separation clause.

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      Oh it’s ok I got a more secular education at a religious school in Ohio than my public school friends did

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    So how do I do something to help? I live a few states over and don’t want my representatives getting any ideas.

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      I just donated to Freedom From Religion Foundation, which files lawsuits challenging attempts like this to undermine church-state separation

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    I’ve heard that the young’uns call “ohio” things that are weird and cringey.

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      I think it’s mainly used to describe something depressing, but weird and cringe work too

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      Not quite, Ohio is where the weird or broken things come from

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      Can confirm, I live in Canada and my 13 year old daughter and her friends make Ohio jokes

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    Riot

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      “Riots are the language of the voiceless”

      -Usually. Sometimes it’s just drunken assholes.

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        Mostly football (futbol) fans.

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    Gerrymandering is a hell of a drug.

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    Proving why Gen Alpha memes/uses skibidi Ohio.

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    Problem -

    Reaction -

    Solution

    OHIO

    It’s not related really, but seeing this article about Ohio doing something stupid reminded me of this article, and specifically the Instagram propaganda shown off within.

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