Tax Dollars Fund Teaching of Religious Supremacism

[lakhota]

The 'Christian' Dogma Pushed by Religious Schools That Are Supported by Your Tax Dollars

If you live in a state with a voucher or corporate tax credit program funding "school choice," your state's tax dollars are funding the teaching of religious supremacism.

Are your state’s tax dollars funding the teaching of religious supremacism and bigotry? What about creationism? The answer is undoubtedly yes, if you live in a state with a voucher or corporate tax credit program funding “school choice."

Religious schools across the nation are receiving public funds through voucher and corporate tax credit programs. Many hundreds, if not thousands, of these schools use Protestant fundamentalist textbooks that teach not only creationism, but also a religious supremacist worldview. They offer a shocking spin on politics, history and human rights.

In 12 states and the District of Columbia, almost 200,000 students attend private schools with at least part of their tuition paid with public funds. The money is taken from public school budgets to fund vouchers or by diverting state tax revenues to tuition grants through corporate tax credit programs. An interconnected group of non-profits and political action committees, led by the wealthy right-wing school privatization advocate Betsy DeVos and heavily funded by a few mega-donors, is working to expand these programs across the nation. The DeVos-led American Federation for Children hosted Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and Michelle Rhee at a national policy summit earlier in May.

Take a look at what growing numbers of students are being taught with taxpayer funding. The textbook quotes are followed by a description of the Florida tax credit program, the largest of its kind in the country.

The Textbooks...

Much More: www.alternet.org/teaparty/151046/the_%27christian%27_dogma_pushed_by_religious_schools_that_are_supported_by_your_tax_dollars/?page=entire

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Fine with me. The parents in Florida have a CHOICE. Compare that to some of the schlock they teach in government run schools in states where parents have no choice, and I'll take the Florida system every day (and twice on Sunday... ).

[ed1066]

Is it still religious supremacism if Christianity actually IS better than all the other religions?

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

May 24, 2011 22:49:19 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

Is it still religious supremacism if Christianity actually IS better than all the other religions?

[burnsattornincan]

Are your state’s tax dollars funding the teaching of religious supremacism and bigotry?

So that excludes Islam? Sounds good to me.

[lakhota]

Harold Camping sums up Christianity for me!!!!!

[ed1066]

May 24, 2011 22:54:08 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

Harold Camping sums up Christianity for me!!!!!

Tonto sums up Native Americans for me!!!!!