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.

  • @SCB@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    As a parent of 3 I very strongly disagree with this.

    Kids are superstitious as fuck. Man’s natural state is believing in the supernatural because of how our brains work to piece together information.

    • @VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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      31 year ago

      The supernatural, yes. Someone else’s rigidly defined and extremely authoritarian guilt-based explanation of the supernatural though? Nothing natural about that.

      It’s NOT natural for a child, being naturally curious and expressive, to be told “this is the only truth and if you don’t agree then that makes you a bad person who’s going to suffer for eternity”

    • @player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      You’re right that it is human psychology but Supernatural / God is an easy explanation for things we don’t understand because it doesn’t actually explain why things happen, it is a scapegoat that avoids answering the question. In the absence of information, it is more comfortable to feel like we have an understanding of something rather than admit we don’t know why it happens , so we are inclined to believe the leading theory even if it doesn’t have supporting evidence.

      As we grow and learn about the knowledge modern humans have gathered, we understand why things actually happen. For example, humans used to think a sun god pulled the sun across the sky, then we learned about the solar system. As the breadth of scientific knowledge grows, the areas for supernatural/religious claims shrink.