Louisiana's new voucher program gives $$ to religious "schools" without facilities or teachers

[JoePhilly]

40. And I graduated from a Jesuit University. By choice.

When you send a kid to a religious school, they are REQUIRED to take classes in religion, usually the religion of the school.

You sent your daughter to a Catholic school K-12. I'm going to guess you are a Catholic. And while there, she was required to take classes in religion, probably Roman Catholicism.

And what you are saying is that non-Catholics should be willing to take mandatory classes in Catholicism if the only option they have is a voucher for the local Catholic schools.

Now imagine that you, a Catholic, live in an area where there are no Catholic schools to send your catholic child to. Your only choices are schools run by evangelical Baptists, who believe that elements of their religious view point belong in EVERY class (which they do), not just a few mandatory religious classes.

Or take it further ... you live in an area in Michigan where there are no local Christin schools, only schools run by Muslims. You can get a voucher to send your kids to those, but your child will learn about Islam and Shria law, perhaps be required to pray Islamic prayers 5 times a day, or at least at the normal prayer times while they are at school. Still ok with it?

This isn't just about the many religious schools that will skew science education, its about requiring kids to have religion injected into their school day, even if the religion in question is a religion to which the child does not believe. And using tax dollars to do it.

Many Christians in this country think because we are a majority Christian nation, such possibilities don't matter. But as soon as Baptist kids are being taught to listen to the Pope, and Catholic kids are being taught that the only path to salvation is to be "born again", many will be too myopic to get it.