Florida’s attorney general gave the bishops until August 7 to accept vaccine exemptions their own doctrine calls dishonest. Nearly nine in ten of the state’s Catholic school students sit downstream.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50187606

The threat arrives in plain language. “Failure to comply could jeopardize eligibility for state educational scholarship programs,” Uthmeier wrote, aiming at the funding stream that carried roughly 88 percent of Florida’s more than 94,000 Catholic school students last year. He gave the bishops until August 7 to respond — ten days before most Florida schools open for the new year.

Within hours, the attorney general announced the letter on X. “Ironically, they won’t offer religious exemptions as prescribed by state law,” he wrote. “This is troubling and may disqualify them from state scholarships and vouchers.”

  • Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org
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    21 hours ago

    Yeah, I was not discussing that, I’m with you on that. What I’m talking is about the broader concept and appliance of religious exemptions (you do not pay the same amount of taxes [but a minor amount], or you do not pay taxes at all, because you are religious).

    Because, if I understood well, that’s also being defunded, and I’m in favor of that, even while I’m not favorable to the idea of defunding them in general, because they still make a valuable social labor.

    Sorry if I’m explaining myself bad.

    • Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Oh, I mean yeah I guess idk. I have strong thoughts about tithing and how those funds should be treated internally and externally. Not really the place for that conversation though.