Poor secularist liberals are in a tizzy today due to the Supreme Court ruling in favor of tax vouchers for education. While I’m excited I do understand that this ruling could cause great distress among secularist libs. Yup. I’m worried about them because they’re concerned that taxpayer money going even indirectly to a Christian organization is dangerous and probably means the end of the world or something.
Well turn that frown upside down liberals. I’ve got an idea. And I owe it to your buddies at Planned Parenthood. How about if parents promise that none of the taxpayer funding they receive will go directly to educating children. They’ll keep the voucher money separated kinda’ like Planned Parenthood claims to from killing kids.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re worried that money fungible and that due to the funding more people will choose to educate their children in private school kinda’ like we were worried that Planned Parenthood could abort more children with all that taxpayer funding.
But all you libs seemed pretty cool with Planned Parenthood’s promise not to mix the funds so I’m sure you’ll believe parents when they promise to do the same thing.
I know you think taxpayer funding is OK for killing kids and not for educating them but this is a happy compromise, right?
April 5, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Hmm…I think a better analogy would be "We promise none of our funding will go to educating kids about religion." Sure, the funds may go to hiring religion teachers, paying the salaries of the admins who schedule the classes, and the course materials for all the other courses which promote religious thought. HOWEVER, no gov funding will go to purchasing materials for the religion classes.
April 5, 2011 at 5:49 pm
That works for me. Plus then I don't have to worry about the government using money as an excuse for oversight. Just like PP can conduct surgical abortions without as much regulatory oversight as our local hotdog stand has to deal with, separating funds means the government won't involve itself in my religious education choices. So, I'll use the voucher money to pay for the math and science and grammar and Latin texts that cost so much, then I'll be free to use the money I spent on those things last year to buy as many catechisms and subsriptions to The Remnant as I want. Problem solved.
Marie
April 5, 2011 at 6:13 pm
…"We'll charge lots of $$ for the religion classes, it may even become 30% of our profit!"
April 5, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Your analogy is much better than mine. Great job.