From Americans United:
A member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who eagerly supported Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to fund private schools has had an epiphany: Muslim schools might start getting taxpayer money!
Rep. Valarie Hodges, a Republican who represents East Baton Rouge and Livingston, now says she wishes she hadn’t voted for the Jindal voucher bill.
“I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America’s Founding Fathers’ religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools,” Hodges told the Livingston Parish News.
“I liked the idea of giving parents the option of sending their children to a public school or a Christian school,” Hodges added.
The newspaper reported that she “mistakenly assumed that ‘religious’ meant ‘Christian.’” (The article is password protected, but if you want to read the whole thing, you can sign up here for free.)
“Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders’ religion,” Hodges told the News. “We need to insure that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools. There are a thousand Muslim schools that have sprung up recently. I do not support using public funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana.”
(via Joe My God)
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11 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.The Founding Fathers were about as Christian as I am.
In other words, not very.
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This has been my exact argument for many years. If you start allowing your favorite religion to have a place in politics, then you open the door for all the others. If this is your intention, then wonderful, if not then you might want to rethink your position. Hell, this was my argument back when I was still a Christian too.
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Racist people are racist.
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Freedom of religion for me, but not for anyone else.
Akin to: the only good abortion is my abortion.
Or: don’t let my freedom end where your rights begin.
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R mentality, meet box ‘o rocks.
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This is exactly the kind of derp our Founding Fathers herped.
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pure genius no funding for religious schools at all
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Amen! to that, Bob.
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Because ALL Muslims want to blow up the world while screaming “Alluah Akbar!”, right, Rep, Hodges?
She might think she can single out a minority religion (in the U.S. anyway), but by expecting this to apply to Christians only, she’s discriminating against all religions. I imagine that even Louisiana has its share of Jews, who also have their own schools. She’ll regret those words, very soon, I’m sure.
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In order to regret, one would have to have a soul.
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Another major problem here is that she can justify her horrible thinking by pointing out that she’s just representing the horrible thinking of the people who vote for her. And I’m sure they approve. What we’re seeing here is representative democracy working as it should, and it disappoints me more that there are so many thoughtless people happy to back this.
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