A really sad article from the US state of Louisiana. A state representative there was supporting a program to allow kids to use educational vouchers to go to private religious schools. Because everyone deserves a Christian education in Louisiana! Apparently, she did not understand that Islam is also a religion, and it is also protected by the US Constitution. So some kids were going to use those vouchers to go to a Muslim school. Once the representative discovered this, she was very upset and now wants to cancel the whole voucher program.
This is probably the biggest problem that I have with the far right religious group in America. They want all of these religious protections and exceptions, or whatever, but they believe that religion = Christianity. It never occurs to them that if prayer is allowed in public schools, it might be a Hindu prayer, or a Muslim prayer, or any other prayer. For them, everything is Christian.
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