(03-08-2018 04:20 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 02:16 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Separation between church and public funded schools. PERIOD.

Why?

So, you can't go to Notre Dame on the
GI Bill? Or you can't go to Baylor or TCU on a ROTC scholarship?

For me, its about discrimination. Are taxpayer funded jobs open to all, or just some. So, ND and TCU, who clearly DONT discriminate would be fine in my book. But Baylor, BYU, Liberty, and a bunch of other schools wouldn't be okay. A Gay college professor living in Waco has no taxpayer funded job available to him, while straight college professors do have those taxpayer funded opportunities. Gay students living in Lynchburg cannot access educational opportunites without moving. Maybe the taxpayers should pay living away from home expenses to allow LGBT kids in those areas to access the same educational opportunities that the TAXPAYERS pay for straight students.

And remember, the existence of a discriminatory institution, can 'crowd out' non-discriminatory ones. Especially in the case of a small minority.

And the problem is very bad at the college level. But its even WORSE for primary education. There are places where there's only room for a one program that teaches AP Latin or AP Physics. If taxpayer dollars are used to fund the local in classroom education of straight people (and for straight teachers only), and the local LGBT kids (and teachers) are effectively blocked from any local opportunities. Maybe the solution is for every school district in the country be required to start Harvey Milk Academies that offer the exact same curriculum as the private taxpayer supported school. These schools would probably lose TONS of money and would require huge subsidies.