{"id":183743,"date":"2012-12-05T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/05\/creationism-lose\/"},"modified":"2012-12-05T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:25:00","slug":"creationism-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/05\/creationism-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/public-funding-of-private-schools-that-teach-creationism-ruled-unconstitutional\">ruled that public funding of private schools with creationist curriculums violates the 1<sup>st<\/sup> amendment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Louisiana District judge named Tim Kelley recently ruled that a Louisiana voucher program which used public money to pay for tuition for private religious schools has been deemed unconstitutional to the cheers of some, and sneers of others.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In July Republican Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, enacted legislation that allowed more than $11 million taxpayer dollars to be given to schools that teach Christian creationism. At the time this was a big win for Jindal, who is a self-professed Christian.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">According to Reuters.com the state argued public money was well within the rights of the state to grant to religious institutions, but Judge Kelley disagreed. He ruled that:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Louisiana&#8217;s annual education appropriation, calculated under a complex formula known as the Minimum Foundation Program, was intended exclusively for public schools. To divert it violated the state constitution.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a loss for the people who are trying to divert public funds to private schools in order to fund religious education and desegregate the schools, which makes it a win for the good old US of A.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/J000287.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"100\" \/>One interesting thing though, the article, from the <i>Examiner<\/i> uses a <b>very<\/b> interesting turn of phrase to describe Bobby Jindal.&nbsp; They called him a, &#8220;<b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Self-professed Christian<\/span><\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why the hell do they call him that?<\/p>\n<p>There are any number of reasons to dislike Jindal, he is, after all, a right wing Republican who spends much of his time pandering to the basest instincts of the right wing, but his record regarding his personal faith has been very consistent.<\/p>\n<p>I note this, because the <i>Examiner<\/i> has a noted right-wing editorial bent, and Bobby Jindal has a surfeit of pigmentation, and I think that the two are linked.<\/p>\n<p>They are doubting his religiosity because he is not white enough.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t DC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has just ruled that public funding of private schools with creationist curriculums violates the 1st amendment: A Louisiana District judge named Tim Kelley recently ruled that a Louisiana voucher program which used public money to pay for tuition for private religious schools has been deemed unconstitutional to the cheers of some, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,971,968,972,1001,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-civil-rights","category-education","category-justice","category-racism","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}