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Joe King's avatar

[๐‘Š]โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™.

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘.

Oh, they understand it alright. They just hatr that the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause isn't trumped by the free exercise clause. They want free exercise absolutism, the idea that their personal religious beliefs should take precedence over everyone else's rights. Not just Christian Fucking Privilege, but ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† Christianity.

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RegularJoe's avatar

They're open to everyone's money. Just not to everyone themselves.

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Jane in NC's avatar

I can vouch from personal experience that the catholics have had their hands out for that sweet, sweet taxpayer money for decades. They were pretty much unsuccessful in getting their grubby mitts on it until the current MAGA SCOTUS started tearing down the wall of separation.

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Donrox's avatar

Even worse: mandatory Roman Catholic Christianity. St. Mark's Episcopal Church, up the street from my house, flies the LGBT flag. I can't imagine their preschool discriminates against anybody.

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Crowscage's avatar

The oldest global pedophile ring on the planet has plenty of money to offer free pre K. They just wanted to ram their bullshit into children along with their shlong and get paid for it. Fk them. The sooner they die out, the better.

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Joe King's avatar

If they can get the state to pay for a fresh stream of victims, that's more money for shuffling the ones who get caught to palatial hideaways.

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Crowscage's avatar

A pair of dull pinking shears will make sure they keep the stupid chastity vow.

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Jane in NC's avatar

This is the kind of outside-the-box thinking that keeps me coming back here. Bravo!

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Crowscage's avatar

Thank you I'm here til Thursday. Try the Veal.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

โ€œWe will keep fighting to ensure that every preschooler in Colorado can access quality, affordable education.โ€

Excuse me!?! How does fighting for the privilege to discriminate against the preschoolers ensure every preschooler has access to quality, affordable education? Discrimination is antithetical to ensuring all students have access. Do you people even hear yourselves? Words have meanings, you know. Christ, I doubt any child would benefit from your program considering the lack of knowledge yโ€™all are expressing.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

WWJD? I cannot imagine the Jesus of the gospels would agree with their take on how to treat little kids.

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ericc's avatar

๐‘Ž โ€œ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’-๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘–๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘’๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘–๐‘™๐‘ฆ

Having been through kids in preschool, I'd love to hear them state specifics...particularly since there is generally only ever one parent interacting with the school at a time. Wife drops kid off...how does that interaction change if there's another wife at work? Husband picks kid up...how does that interaction change if there's another husband at work? You get a permission slip back with one signed parent's name on it. The sex of the other spouse matters for that permission slip...how?

I guess maybe at the holiday shows you don't want same sex parents sitting together? But in fact with straight people same sex people sit together all the time. Some other couple shows up you're friends with, it's quite normal for the dudes to sit together to talk while the women do the same (and I bet that with a gay couple, the spouses may do exactly the same thing and sit with straight friends on occasion because we all see our spouses plenty already.)

๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž-๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘’๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘œ

THAT is an attack on the very concept of publicly funded education, and I'd personally like to see it shot down with prejudice. Private schools of any type are not owed state support merely because there is a state option. That's never been how it works.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Good! Looks like the anti-LGBTQ prayers coming from the Church of the Holy Pedophile failed spectacularly. Chalk up another secular victory against the forces of darkness.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Why didn't/doesn't Jeebus just tell the Judges how to rule?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Pretty hard to adjudicate when an imaginary being is involved.

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Patrick Mill's avatar

Sort of shit that shouldnโ€™t concern kids theyโ€™re there to fucking learn not be exposed to garbage

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Jane in NC's avatar

So, the catholics want people to believe that equal treatment under state law is 'discrimination against their religious schools.' What hogwash! How, then, do they explain the 40-odd religious schools that are participating in CO's free pre-K program with no problems at all?

IF the parents of these catholic kids think that giving them a catholic pre-K education is that important, they'll cough up the tuition. And that's the heart of the diocese's problem: they know that if it comes down to a choice between free pre-K with no discrimination and pricey pre-K with bigotry intact, those parents ain't stupid - or all that concerned with the church's culture wars. They're going with free pre-K. If the church wants to complete in that marketplace AND make the case that catholic pre-K is important to them, they'll pony up the funds to provide it free-of-charge to the affected parishes. Having grown up catholic, I can vouch that 'special collections' are routine part of the mass schtick.

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E.A. Blair's avatar

I was born into a Catholic family, and as a matter of course got sent to the local parish elementary school. It was in a traditionally ethnic Polish neighborhood, Saint Mary of Czestochowa (they had a Polish language sermon at one of the Sunday masses). Whenever a family tried to enroll a child of the wrong ethnic persuasion or with special needs, they were told that the school had bilingual instruction in Polish and English and that the prospective student needed to be fluent in both languages to enroll. For eight years, my classmates were exclusively white; no hispanics, no blacks. I didn't get those until high school (which was also Catholic but not as bigoted).

In fact, I was unaware of my grade school's exclusionary policies until some forty years after I left there. It was true at one time that they did have instruction in Polish and English, but that was discontinued in 1924, when my father was in third grade. The nuns all spoke Polish even in my time, and they used to swear at us in that language. When I asked some of the people in the neighborhood who still spoke it what some of those words meant, they were shocked that I even knew those words and refused to translate.

The parish of Saint Mary of Czestochowa no longer exists; the church building is now a school of robotics, and the old school building is still a Catholic elementary school, and at least half of the kids who attend now would never have been allowed past the doors when I was a student there. As far as I know, the exclusionary policy was in use until the school changed hands.

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E.A. Blair's avatar

Typo apology: "elementary", not "wlwmentary". My fingers were misaligned on the keyboard.

Update: Fixed.

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larry parker's avatar

Elmer Fudd Wlwmentary School.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

3 dots top right on yr. comment has edit function. Fascinating comment BTW.

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E.A. Blair's avatar

Thanks. I fixed it. That's not a very obvious feature. I found out about that little scheme when I read a history of my neighborhood. After living in several different parts of the country, I'm back in my old ground, living just two blocks from that school.

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nora noneofyourdamnbusines's avatar

Wouldnโ€™t it be lovely if Pope Leo got wind of this and told those Catholic schools to drop their lawsuit? ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

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larry parker's avatar

New pope, same as the old pope, same as the old pope, same as the old pope......

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Sure, it'd be nice. I wouldn't hold my breath, though.

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nora noneofyourdamnbusines's avatar

Neither would I. More of a fanciful thoughtโ€ฆ

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Overall my thoughts are.

This program isnโ€™t about you, Catholic schools. Not your access to taxpayer money. Not your religious beliefs. Not your hurt feelings.

This program is about the students having access to preschool no matter who they are, who their parents are and how much money they have. If you canโ€™t get behind that, then you donโ€™t get to participate in the program. If you canโ€™t compete, then you canโ€™t compete.

If your beliefs werenโ€™t all about being assholes, you wouldnโ€™t be facing this โ€œdilemmaโ€.

Universal preschool is supposed to be universal, meaning all students.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

The Catholic Church has historically always put doctrine and dogma over human beings and human sensibilities, as you well know. They think they should set the norms for society and are miffed when society ignores them.

Which means we need to continue rubbing their noses in situations like this until they get the message.

And no, I don't expect that any time soon! ๐Ÿ˜

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

โ€œThis ban forces parents to choose between paying out of pocket for the cost of faith-based preschool or receiving a free preschool education at any other private school in Colorado. It also hurts the ability of schools like St. Maryโ€™s and St. Bernadetteโ€™s to compete with other preschools that can offer free preschool education.โ€

The program is not here to make preschools be competitive, the program is designed to allow all students to have access to preschool. The beneficiaries, and therefore the people the state needs to care about, are the children/students. Full stop. Your inability to compete is irrelevant. Too bad, so sad.

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Boreal's avatar

โ€œThis ban forces parents to choose between paying out of pocket for the cost of faith-based preschool or receiving a free preschool education at any other private school in Colorado.โ€

Tough shit. Pay for your own bigotry, child rape cult.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Their complaint that they will have to raise tuition to cover the lost students is wack anyway. Why donโ€™t they beg funds from the Vatican to maintain the school and keep tuition low?

Wait, I forgot the money within the RCC only flows upward, never down. How Christ-like.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

The model currently being used by the US government.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I would write it raping child cult.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

It's very much a Cult of Misogyny as well.

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larry parker's avatar

Them kids aren't going to learn how to be bigots on their own.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"You've got to be carefully taught."

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

โ™ซโ™ช You've got to be taught before it's too late,

Before you are six or seven or eight,

To hate all the people your relatives hate,

You've got to be carefully taught! โ™ชโ™ซ

-- from South Pacific

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Donrox's avatar

A show tune came to all our minds. Another reason I love coming here.

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Tinker's avatar

It's rich that the Church wants to claim that giving tax dollars to everyone but them would mean they are at a disadvantage. The Church can run preschools and other things cheaper because of tax breaks and donations. THEY are the ones that have an advantage over for profit preschools.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Their pseudo argument fail with a simple Internet research about how it works in countries with mandatory pre school subsidized by the state.

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phelpsmediation's avatar

A careful reading of the churchโ€™s arguments is that they are being told they must deny their โ€œfaithโ€ to get government money. They are never arguing that they must deny their โ€œevidenceโ€, an important part of any court case, to get government money. So far this time the mythical beliefs, sans evidence, did not win over the rights of real human children not to be discriminated against!!! We will have to hold our celebrations until it gets past SCOTUS. ๐Ÿคฏ

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ericc's avatar

Well there's no objective evidence on the question of whether SSM is a sin or not a sin.

But they aren't really being denied their faith IMO. "Their faith" is about belief; this is about one expression of it...in a professional setting...for which the government is helping to pay them. Just like a rastafarian can believe smoking dope is a sacrament but be told you can't do it during their HHS job, an RCC teacher can believe a kid's parents are living in sin but be told you can't discriminate against the kid on the job.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

https://www.alternet.org/jimmy-kimmel-trump-2674164973/

OT but you can't make this shit up. A funny conservative show... almost a contradiction in terms.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Most right-wingers have had their sense of humor surgically removed.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

News Bulletin: mostly, conservatives ARE NOT FUNNY. Or at least not when they TRY to be funny. More often, they are funny by accident and when they don't WANT to be funny.

And so it goes...

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John Smith's avatar

Conservatives think punching down is funny, thatโ€™s the problem.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

BINGO!!!

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Maltnothops's avatar

I was gonna write exactly what John wrote. Then when I saw his comment, I was about to write exactly what you wrote. Then I saw your comment.

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John Smith's avatar

Great minds think alike! :)

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Cue the theme from The Twilight Zone!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Remember FOXs attempt at a rightwing version of The Daily Show? No? That's ok. Hardly anyone does. It was called The 1/2 Hour News Hour and it bombed big time.

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Maltnothops's avatar

Umโ€ฆ.hilarious?

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