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Junior Chimp
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« on: February 15, 2007, 04:30:40 AM » |
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Surprisingly I don't think this has ever been mentioned here. Maybe it has, but I just didn't notice.
The Blaine Amendment was a proposed constitutional amendment over 100 years ago that would have barred states from giving the taxpayers' money to religious-affiliated schools. I think it came kind of close to passing, and I know the House approved it overpoweringly (it was something like 180 to 7).
Most states did pass their own version of this law, but there's still a few holdouts.
After the Supreme Court made a really bad ruling favoring vouchers a few years ago, I think we need to bring back the effort to pass the Blaine Amendment. I don't know how much good this will do, because many of the states that have such a law completely ignore it (Kentucky included).
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