Thursday, June 26, 2008
Jeb & His Hacks Still Hacking at the Church/State Wall
And you thought he was the "good" or "competent" Bush? Or at least, safely out of power?
Think again. My buddy monitoring church/state relations and militant creationists attacking science education sent me this scary piece, from AlterNet.org:
... If former Gov. Jeb Bush and his allies have their way, all of these [Florida mainstream religious] schools – and private academies like them around the state – will soon be eligible for massive new streams of public funding, courtesy of the state’s taxpayers.
Bush has engineered onto the November ballot two initiatives that would eliminate the state constitution’s strict church-state separation provisions, mandate funding of religion and water down language requiring a quality public school system.
For advocates of church-state separation and strong public schools, it’s a political showdown with breath-taking possible consequences. ...
—By Joseph L. Conn, Church & State Magazine
Think again. My buddy monitoring church/state relations and militant creationists attacking science education sent me this scary piece, from AlterNet.org:
... If former Gov. Jeb Bush and his allies have their way, all of these [Florida mainstream religious] schools – and private academies like them around the state – will soon be eligible for massive new streams of public funding, courtesy of the state’s taxpayers.
Bush has engineered onto the November ballot two initiatives that would eliminate the state constitution’s strict church-state separation provisions, mandate funding of religion and water down language requiring a quality public school system.
For advocates of church-state separation and strong public schools, it’s a political showdown with breath-taking possible consequences. ...
—By Joseph L. Conn, Church & State Magazine
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