So much for Caesar
Submitted by James on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 3:10pm
How long until this shit happens in North Carolina? How long before the Tarheel Taliban funnel more public money to religious institutions, violating both the Constitution and the words of Jesus?
Justice Elena Kagan, in her first dissent, said the majority had laid waste to the doctrine of “taxpayer standing,” which allows suits from people who object to having tax money spent on religious matters. “The court’s opinion,” Justice Kagan wrote, “offers a road map — more truly, a one-step instruction — to any government that wishes to insulate its financing of religious activity from legal challenge.”
I guess the Bible only means what it says when it says what you already think. A convenient tool, the zealot's fig leaf.
Combine this with the Charter School bill
(not to mention the voucher bill) that sets up a separate commission to approve new charters, and we could be pumping both State and local tax monies into religious schools with no recourse to stop it.