I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones

saltwn · #1 (**permalink**) 07-05-2012, 11:32 PM

Louisiana Republican: When I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones

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In Louisiana, Republican Governor Bobby Jindal pushed for a voucher program that would allow state funds to be used to pay for religious schools. It’s unconstitutional, it’s a way to use taxpayer money to fund someone’s faith, and it was a bad idea to begin with.

But it passed.

Now, one of the state legislators, Rep. Valarie Hodges (R-Watson), just made a shocking discovery, though: Christianity isn’t the only religion!

WTHeck?

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Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Watson, says she had no idea that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s overhaul of the state’s educational system might mean taxpayer support of Muslim schools.

“I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America’s Founding Fathers’ religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools,” the District 64 Representative said Monday.

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“Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders’ religion,” Hodges said. “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.”

sucks to be you then huh ms. Hodges?

Oftencold · #2 (**permalink**) 07-05-2012, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Louisiana Republican: When I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones

WTHeck?

sucks to be you then huh ms. Hodges?

Easy fix! Require any school receiving the funds to have a 100% transparent curriculum, open to direct inspection at any time.

All done here. {Oftencold swirls his cape dramatically, and flies away.}

saltwn · #3 (**permalink**) 07-05-2012, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Oftencold

Easy fix! Require any school receiving the funds to have a 100% transparent curriculum, open to direct inspection at any time.

All done here. {Oftencold swirls his cape dramatically, and flies away.}

Kinda like having regulations huh...

foundit66 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-05-2012, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Kinda like having regulations huh...

Exactly what I was thinking...

It amazes me how transparent some people's thought processes are.
It's just like the Jim Crow mentality. The point of the law is not justified on its own merits, but rather the obvious purpose of the law is to accomplish discrimination which is forbidden by the constitution...

saltwn · #5 (**permalink**) 07-05-2012, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by foundit66

Exactly what I was thinking...

It amazes me how transparent some people's thought processes are.
It's just like the Jim Crow mentality. The point of the law is not justified on its own merits, but rather the obvious purpose of the law is to accomplish discrimination which is forbidden by the constitution...

shh...I'm not that good at one liners but sometimes it is too easy.

Oftencold · #6 (**permalink**) 07-06-2012, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Kinda like having regulations huh...

So? It's certainly a reasonable one too. If a Muslim school is concentrating on academics with a side to religious instruction, no problem, as a principle, and if they have nothing to hide. You know, like extolling them to kill the Jews, glorifying suicidal Jihad, insisting that infidel women women have no rights, that sort of thing.

saltwn · #7 (**permalink**) 07-06-2012, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Oftencold

So? It's certainly a reasonable one too. If a Muslim school is concentrating on academics with a side to religious instruction, no problem, as a principle, and if they have nothing to hide. You know, like extolling them to kill the Jews, glorifying suicidal Jihad, insisting that infidel women women have no rights, that sort of thing.

And what if the Catholic schools are found to teach that only men should be pastors?

saltwn · #8 (**permalink**) 07-06-2012, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Oftencold

So? It's certainly a reasonable one too. If a Muslim school is concentrating on academics with a side to religious instruction, no problem, as a principle, and if they have nothing to hide. You know, like extolling them to kill the Jews, glorifying suicidal Jihad, insisting that infidel women women have no rights, that sort of thing.

We already have regulators doing that. It's called the board of education.

Mikeyy · #9 (**permalink**) 07-06-2012, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Oftencold

So? It's certainly a reasonable one too. If a Muslim school is concentrating on academics with a side to religious instruction, no problem, as a principle, and if they have nothing to hide. You know, like extolling them to kill the Jews, glorifying suicidal Jihad, insisting that infidel women women have no rights, that sort of thing.

"If you have nothing to hide"...ha. When have we heard that one before?

catusfelidae · #10 (**permalink**) 07-06-2012, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Louisiana Republican: When I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones

WTHeck?

sucks to be you then huh ms. Hodges?

Damn that pesky first amendment!

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