Question of the Week: Should Public Money be Used to Fund Private Schools with Explicit Anti-Gay Policies?
This week's question centers around public funds going towards private schools that have explicit, severe anti-gay policies.
Earlier this year a group called the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) released a report indicating that some scholarship money generated through a Georgia tax credit program has been used at religious schools that ban gay, lesbian and bisexual students. The report states, At least 115 private schools participating in Georgia’s tax-funded scholarship program have explicit, severe anti-gay policies or belong to state and national private school associations that promote anti-gay policies and practices among their members. While SEF did not take issue with the policies of private religious schools, it did have a problem with tax dollars going to schools that discriminate against some people. Tax money, the group said in its report, should…
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Sally Hansell
9:10 am on Thursday, March 28, 2013
Thanks to the Patch editors for posting this question of the week. I was astonished by the findings in the Southern Education Foundation's report and wrote a blog piece published yesterday in the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sally-hansell/antigay-private-schools-georgia_b_2952162.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices more ›