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LINK Rules Are for Schmucks: The DeVos Religious College Ploy - TheHumanist.com

Secretary DeVos appears to be in somewhat of a competition with Republican members of Congress to see who can shovel more government money into religion more quickly. The push on Capitol Hill is to reauthorize the Higher Education Act with a major overhaul called the “Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform Act,” or the “PROSPER Act.” PROSPER, among other things, would repeal anti-discrimination rules to permit campus organizations to discriminate based on race, religion, or sexual orientation, if God tells them to do so. There may be a limit to how far DeVos can go by amending a regulation, but there is virtually no limit to how far Congress can go.

zblaze 7 June 17
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DeVos and other religious groups behind her know that Ajax is the only real god and they have to have his teachings mixed in with the science class. Imagine what hovac that would cause. The courts would fight it and knock it down until it actually meant nothing. Teaching gods in school would have to be equally done because of the many gods. Not enough time to do this. In the end, DeVos and friends lose.

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The game plan for some time now has been to privatize education, beginning with public schools, repurposing it as the means to divert yet more taxpayer funding into the pockets of businesses whose sole intent is maximizing the bottom line. Under this administration, that plan has gained real and troubling traction - shovelling tax dollars into religious schools is but a first step.

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