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Re:Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B by abetusk on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:49PM (#23793449)
This is some contorted logic. "We will not privilege religion, so we will give a privileged tax exempt status to religion".

Ha, nice, the Satanic Temple is also tax exempt [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple

Re:Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B by klyrs on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:23PM (#23793912)
I've been thinking a lot about the Satanic Temple recently. The supreme court has been ferociously eroding the separation of church and state lately. I wonder how they, and the public, would respond to public funding for a Satanic charter school that openly discriminated against heterosexual teachers and forced heterosexual students to undergo gay conversion therapy...

Edit: to be clear, I don't think that it would be a good to do. But for all the fearmongering about the "gay agenda" to make your kids gay, there's a well-documented "straight agenda" that results in a high rate of suicide (and very few enduring conversions) of its victims. If we are equal in the eyes of the law, zero or both must be valid.

Re:Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B by true_religion on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:45PM (#23798335)
I’m not against a gay only school. It doesn’t sound too dissimilar to male or female only schools, which only seek to employ teachers of the same gender.