Rob
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"Fighting injustice, one victory at a time."
The effect of yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court in favor of vouchers for parochial schools was to hit America's working families with a huge Republican Party tax increase. That's because every Supreme Court Justice who voted in favor of the voucher scam is a Republican. Every Democratic Supreme Court Justice voted against the scam.
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Taxing citizens to pay churches for the cost of the religious indoctrination of children is now permitted by the federal government, despite the fact that the clear intent of the First Amendment is to prohibit that government from taxing citizens to pay for the cost of operating churches. Taxpayers have been paying for the cost of providing a secular education to America's children in public schools, while those who choose to indoctrinate their children in religion have paid for that folly on their own. Now, thanks to the Republican Party and their members on the Supreme Court, either taxes will increase dramatically on us to pay for the additional, substantial cost of the religious indoctrination of children, or taxes will increase dramatically on our children in the form of deficit spending condoned by Republicans. This huge Republican Party tax increase, either on today's working families or on our children's working families in the future, comes just after Republicans gave a huge, budget-busting tax cut to the wealthiest of Americans.
If you've watched any Major League Baseball games in the last few years, you know how umpires often call pitches strikes even when the replay shows that the pitch was way outside. Sometimes umpires do it to speed up the game at the expense of the integrity of the game. Often times it is done to make sure that teams who are regarded as inferior don't win too many games. Either way, it's obvious that the pitch was a ball, even though it was called a strike. Similarly, the pitch for parochial school vouchers was obviously way outside the strike zone of the First Amendment, despite the fact that Republican umpires on the Supreme Court pretended that the pitch was just over the First Amendment's outside corner. They haven't fooled me with their contention. I'm sure that they haven't fooled you, either.
There's still some hope. The federal government, thanks to the Republican Party and their Supreme Court Justices, now permits states to tax you for the purpose of subsidizing the operation of churches, but only if the states choose to do so. The Supreme Court ruling, however, does not require states to do so.
Many state constitutions prohibit such folly. Here in Illinois, for example, Article 10, Section 3 of the state constitution states, in pertinent part, that the government may not "pay from any public fund whatever, anything ... to help support or sustain any school ... [that is] controlled by any church or sectarian denomination." While states are permitted by the federal government to do parochiaid, states are not required by the federal government to do parochiaid.
The battle, then, now moves to the states, where the Roman Catholic Church will try to persuade state legislatures to either repeal our rights guaranteed under state constitutions or to simply ignore our state constitutional protections and do parochiaid, anyway.
The irony, here, is that the Roman Catholic Church would have plenty of money, on their own, to pay for their schools if they weren't paying billions in damages as a result of their employees raping the children of their financial supporters. If parents would simply keep medicine out of the reach of their children and keep children out of the reach of their priests, the Church of Pedophilia wouldn't need our tax dollars to pay for their operations. If priests would keep their zippers up, we would be able to keep our taxes down. It seems that we taxpayers are now going to get stuck in the backside with higher taxes because priests keep sticking their customers' children in the backside with their holy scepters.
I'll try to hold the fort, here in Illinois and in as many other states as I can, by calling legislators and traveling to state capitols to testify at hearings on parochiaid. It will take a lot of money to cover the cost of doing that. Please make it possible for me to do this in your behalf by becoming a financial supporter of Rob Sherman Advocacy. If you do, I promise to thank you by not raping your children.
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