Comments on: Lawsuit Against Florida School Voucher Expansion Thrown Out http://www.northescambia.com/2014/12/lawsuit-against-florida-school-voucher-expansion-thrown-out Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:38:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DavidHuieGreen http://www.northescambia.com/2014/12/lawsuit-against-florida-school-voucher-expansion-thrown-out/comment-page-1#comment-288957 DavidHuieGreen Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:26:21 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=202143#comment-288957 FURTHER, REGARDING: "It’s time to dump this unnecessary government program!" How many government programs are REALLY necessary? Nice? Sure. Absolutely necessary? Mmmm.... David for good things FURTHER, REGARDING:
“It’s time to dump this unnecessary government program!”

How many government programs are REALLY necessary?
Nice? Sure.
Absolutely necessary? Mmmm….

David for good things

]]> By: DavidHuieGreen http://www.northescambia.com/2014/12/lawsuit-against-florida-school-voucher-expansion-thrown-out/comment-page-1#comment-288956 DavidHuieGreen Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:20:25 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=202143#comment-288956 REGARDING THE STATEMENT: " our state’s Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship scheme thumbs its nose at some core values of our country’s democracy as expressed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I of Florida’s Constitution. Four dollars out of every five spent by this program send children to religious schools." Maybe so, but it does so legally and without governmentally favoring or disfavoring any religious group. It decides to not tax money or to give credit based on corporate donations for education. If you question the quality of the education received, saddle the law with requirements for proof rather than oppose it because some of those involved hold religious beliefs -- some of which are extremely peculiar. If education is the goal, let education be the criterion. If antireligion is the goal, say so and show how that squares with the First Amendment forbidding such antipathy. David for honesty REGARDING THE STATEMENT:
” our state’s Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship scheme thumbs its nose at some core values of our country’s democracy as expressed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I of Florida’s Constitution. Four dollars out of every five spent by this program send children to religious schools.”

Maybe so, but it does so legally and without governmentally favoring or disfavoring any religious group. It decides to not tax money or to give credit based on corporate donations for education. If you question the quality of the education received, saddle the law with requirements for proof rather than oppose it because some of those involved hold religious beliefs — some of which are extremely peculiar.

If education is the goal, let education be the criterion.
If antireligion is the goal, say so and show how that squares with the First Amendment forbidding such antipathy.

David for honesty

]]> By: Merrill Shapiro http://www.northescambia.com/2014/12/lawsuit-against-florida-school-voucher-expansion-thrown-out/comment-page-1#comment-288850 Merrill Shapiro Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:06:28 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=202143#comment-288850 This is a wonderful article as far as it goes. But that "broader challenge" to this voucher scheme relies on our country’s Conservative values. I became a plaintiff on behalf of Americans United for Separation of Church and State in this broader challenge because our state’s Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship scheme thumbs its nose at some core values of our country’s democracy as expressed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I of Florida’s Constitution. Four dollars out of every five spent by this program send children to religious schools. Florida’s Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship forces as many as 25,000 Escambia County Catholics to pay for the religious education of thousands of Seventh Day Adventists around the state while approximately 60,000 Escambia County Baptists are paying for the religious education of hundreds of Muslim students. A 20,000 or more Escambia County Evangelicals are paying for the religious education of thousands of Episcopalians while some 600 Escambia County Jews are financially supporting curricula that teach that “God does not hear the prayers of Jews.” It’s time to dump this unnecessary government program! This is a wonderful article as far as it goes. But that “broader challenge” to this voucher scheme relies on our country’s Conservative values.
I became a plaintiff on behalf of Americans United for Separation of Church and State in this broader challenge because our state’s Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship scheme thumbs its nose at some core values of our country’s democracy as expressed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I of Florida’s Constitution. Four dollars out of every five spent by this program send children to religious schools. Florida’s Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship forces as many as 25,000 Escambia County Catholics to pay for the religious education of thousands of Seventh Day Adventists around the state while approximately 60,000 Escambia County Baptists are paying for the religious education of hundreds of Muslim students. A 20,000 or more Escambia County Evangelicals are paying for the religious education of thousands of Episcopalians while some 600 Escambia County Jews are financially supporting curricula that teach that “God does not hear the prayers of Jews.”
It’s time to dump this unnecessary government program!

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