The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a landmark case that could finally allow Christianity back in the public schools in America. A pair of incredibly bad Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s banned prayer and Bible reading in public schools. This was done under the faulty guise of “separation of church and state.”
No one could argue that the atheist public school system has done a better job since then. The court could rule in this new case that the current model of banning Christianity from American public schools is unconstitutional.
The case involves an online Catholic school in Oklahoma. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtue School was granted charter school status by the Oklahoma charter school board.
For those unfamiliar with charter schools, it means that St. Isidore received taxpayer funds to run their school. This was the first overtly religious charter school founded in the United States, ever since the charter school movement started in 1992.
Naturally, some atheist pitched a giant hissy fit and started smearing his feces all over the walls in response to this. He sued, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed that it was a violation of the US Constitution for a Catholic charter school to provide a Catholic education to Catholic students using taxpayer money.
The case is St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtue School vs. Drummond if you want to look up the particulars. Justice Amy Coney Barrett has recused herself from the case, although she didn’t list a reason for doing so. That still gives us a 5-3 conservative majority when the Supreme Court hears the case.
How come you never hear atheists complaining about the school system in Canada, which works just fine?
If you look at any city in Canada, you’ll find something very interesting. They have two or sometimes three school districts in every geographic area. One is a secular atheist public school district, just like the ones we have here in America. The other is a Catholic school district. Some cities also have a third Francophone school district, for bilingual education for French-Canadian students.
Taxpayers support all the different school districts, whether they’re secular, Catholic, or Francophone. Canada is a majority-Catholic country. They respect the rights of Catholic parents, so every city has a taxpayer-funded Catholic school district where their kids can receive Catholic education.
How’s that working out for them? Every year, Canadian students outscore American students on standardized international PISA test scores in reading, math, and science. They outscore American kids by a LOT. Their education system doesn’t seem to be suffering even though they offer both secular and religious schooling options for parents.
Here in America, Protestants and Catholics have been getting ripped off ever since the 1960s. We don’t want to send our precious children to atheist public schools that will turn them into transgender communists who believe the sun will cook us to death in 12 years time. (Sorry, but… you know I’m right.)
Protestant and Catholic parents are forced to either homeschool our children or pay for an expensive private school for our kids if we want to keep them out of the clutches of Randi Weingarten’s minions. We do this at our own expense and yet, we are still forced to pay the same amount of taxes to finance the atheist schools that we’re not using.
The Supreme Court will be deciding on the inherent unfairness of the current system. Public schooling very obviously discriminates against the Christian religion. The religious beliefs of atheism, secularism, and communism are elevated over Catholicism and Protestantism.
This seems like an easy problem for the country to fix without establishing separate religious school districts as they have in Canada. Simply assign education dollars to students, rather than to schools. If parents want to send their children to a Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, or transgender global warming cult public school, or if they want to homeschool, the dollars can be assigned to that child’s particular education institute.
That would be universally fair to all students of all religious backgrounds. Parents would no longer be forced to violate their conscience by paying for atheist schools that their children are not attending anyway.
The Supreme Court will hear opening arguments in the case involving St. Isidore sometime in April. A decision will be granted sometime in late June or early July of this year. This could lead to some amazing changes in the way education is handled in America—and that’s a good thing.
