Oklahoma's Republican attorney general has filed a lawsuit to stop what would be the nation's first publicly funded religious school.

Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Friday sued to stop a state board from establishing and funding what would be the nation’s first religious public charter school after the board ignored Drummond’s warning that it would violate both the state and U.S. constitutions.

Drummond filed the lawsuit with the Oklahoma Supreme Court against the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board after three of the board’s members this week signed a contract for the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School, which is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.

“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 states.

  • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    43•1 year ago

    Canadian here, do not allow the Catholics to infiltrate and muddy your publicly funded school system. They have enough money to set up their own bullshit. Now in Canada, my money goes to fund fucking Catholic schools, but only Catholic, not any other religion. It’s straight up obscene.

    • @scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world
      3•1 year ago

      Already done with PragerU in FL, NH and a couple of other states. Maybe PragerU will come to a school near you. Local elections matter folks vote November 7 and keep the trumpy grumpies out of our government.