The threat arrives in plain language. “Failure to comply could jeopardize eligibility for state educational scholarship programs,” Uthmeier wrote, aiming at the funding stream that carried roughly 88 percent of Florida’s more than 94,000 Catholic school students last year. He gave the bishops until August 7 to respond — ten days before most Florida schools open for the new year.
Within hours, the attorney general announced the letter on X. “Ironically, they won’t offer religious exemptions as prescribed by state law,” he wrote. “This is troubling and may disqualify them from state scholarships and vouchers.”
12 Comments
Triumph@fedia.io · 63 pts · 1d
The state shouldn't be funding Catholic schools in the first place.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1d
The end goal is to stop funding education entirely, I believe
Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz · 42 pts · 2d
The dishonesty of conflating stem cell research with vaccine research aside, assholes like this want countless people to die of preventable diseases in the name of not benefitting from a handful of abortions that would still be occurring.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 12 pts · 1d
Well... fetal stem cells are sometimes used for vaccine development... Although they do not actually use any original fetal tissue.
So the original cells may have been harvested in say 1985 from fetal tissue, but the cells actually used for research in 2019/2020 were lab grown well after that. No different than studying any other cell line, you have to grow enough to be able to work with it. Certain cell lines are more useful for research than others because of certain genetic differences.
And that ignores the Catholic Church's official stance...
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2020/12/21/201221c.html
So these self-proclaimed Catholics aren't even following what their Church says.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
They still will need slaves, but not THAT many. You know, just enough that they can control without a number so big that they could unite .
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 1d
Continues to be the stupidest timeline
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 2d
Let him
I'm sure "defunding the schools" won't come back to bite
decolo@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d
These guys do not want functional schools. I don't think letting them ruin society is a good plan.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1d
88% of their funding? Fucking hell. I bet the church caves on this one.
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1d
fuck yah, fight the die-hard catholic.
Noot like they're your last demographic that might still support you or something.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Good? Religious schools shouldn’t be getting government funding anyway
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
And Jesus said unto them, "Fuck them kids."