Paying for religious education with taxpayer money is a violation of the first amendment since they teach religion. Courts have ruled on this many times. The courts in Louisiana blocked the voucher law there on that basis.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 8:58 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Creationism in public schools, mapped. Where tax money supports alternatives to evolution. Maybe you misunderstood the first amendment. These States did not make laws respecting the establishment of religion. What they did was admit they can not or will not try to educate children that are disadvantaged so they gave them a tax refund and asked them to sort out their own education. . On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > It's tax payer funding of religious schools, which is a violation of > the 1st amendment. Period. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:369418 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
