Report: $1 billion in taxpayer money went to anti-science private schools last year

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Taxpayers are helping to pay for courses and textbooks that encourage students to mistrust science, mathematics, and the secular world itself – and those efforts seem likely to expand into other states.

Currently, taxpayers in 14 states funnel nearly $1 billion in private school tuition through voucher programs, paying those schools to teach children that Adam and Eve lived alongside dinosaurs less than 10,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden.

Politico reviewed hundreds of pages of course outlines, textbooks, and school website and reported Monday that many of these taxpayer-funded, faith-based schools portray science and mathematics as a web of lies.

Textbooks popular in Christian schools describe evolution as “a wicked and vain philosophy,” while students practice vocabulary lessons that claim “many scientists today are creationists.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/24/report-1-billion-in-taxpayer-money-went-to-anti-science-private-schools-last-year/

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1. So wrong! Bad enough that religions don't pay taxes

Now they are taking tax money to spread their disease?

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2. That is in violation of the separation of church and state.

In this instance the government is promoting a religious doctrine.

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3. Not any more,

The supreme arses just destroyed that red line. Time to bring our prayers to Sartan and the Flying Spaghetti Monster to the opening of our village, town. school, and county meetings.