Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond — a Republican — is bucking his own party in a new lawsuit aimed at preventing what would be the first publicly funded religious school in America from opening.
On Friday, Drummond filed the suit in Oklahoma Supreme Court, challenging the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board’s 3-2 decision in June to grant a contract to open St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School. According to PBS, Drummond warned that the establishment of St. Isidore, which is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, would lead to the floodgates opening for religious groups of all stripes to make bids for public funding for schools of their own.
“Make no mistake, if the Catholic Church were permitted to have a public virtual charter school, a reckoning will follow in which this state will be faced with the unprecedented quandary of processing requests to directly fund all petitioning sectarian groups,” the lawsuit read.
Oh wow! There’s a unicorn in the Republican party! It appears that a modern Republican actually had the inclination to think of “what would happen next?”, BEFORE implementing said thing. Whew.
The Church of Satan must be opening a school using the same method.
CoS keeps to themselves. The Satanic Temple are the activists. They’re the ones that do the After School Satan Clubs.
Or a Muslim one
I hope so. Me and my wife are members. Thank goodness they are around.
Unfortunately they weren’t concerned about public money used for religion.
They were concerned that those other religions expect equal treatment.
Apparently we are a smart AG. To bad our governor and the guy in charge of education both fought to open this school. Glad the AG is trying to stop it. But wonder how the courts will rule.