Maine: religious schools must protect gay students to qualify for tuition reimbursement
September 01, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: New policies in the state of Maine allow tuition reimbursements to parents who send their children to private and religious schools. But most religious schools are not accepting the program, because the state’s attorney general has ruled that to qualify, they must comply with anti-discrimination laws, including those that relate to homosexual students and faculty.
David Carson, one of the parents whose lawsuit gave rise to the new policies, remarks: “The state said you can take the money, but we’ll tie your hands.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Sep. 02, 2022 4:03 PM ET USA
A first step in correcting this situation is to change the tax and spend laws to return charitable works and K-12 education to the Church and the private sector where they belong. The various government entities should return to the U.S. Constitution and return political power to the governed, which would in the process return us to the limited government envisioned by the Founders.
