Andrew linked sympathetically to a liberal freaking out over the fact that under Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school reform plan (which is now being contested in court), state money would end up being used by some parents to pay tuition to religious schools that use fundamentalist Christian curricula — ones that deny, for example, evolutionary biology.
I brought this up a few weeks ago with a Louisiana friend who knows a lot more about this stuff than I do. N. and I, neither of whom are fundamentalists, both agree that in an ideal world, this wouldn’t happen. But his explanation of the situation went something like this (I’m paraphrasing):
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