Judge: Money for Baptist School Is Wrong

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Mar 6, 1:13 PM EST

Judge: Money for Baptist School Is Wrong


FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- A judge has ruled that lawmakers violated the state constitution by appropriating state funding to a Baptist university.

A gay rights group filed suit to try to block an $11 million appropriation to create a pharmacy school at the University of the Cumberlands, a Southern Baptist school in Williamsburg.

Kentucky Fairness Alliance executive director Christina Gilgor calls the ruling a victory against state-subsidized discrimination. A call to the university for comment wasn't returned.

The Center for Law & Religious Freedom had argued on behalf of the school that the legislature acted lawfully because it sought to address the state's shortage of pharmacists.




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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. but you know those pharmacists

would be taught that they could refuse to fill prescriptions if it was against their religion. So I don't see them being helpful to a shortage of pharmacists.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Faith based pharmacy service

Obviously there is no separation of church and state in this country.

[frebrd]

6. And considering the pandering to religion

done by our potential presidential nominees, that's not likely to change any time soon.

:-(

[Judi Lynn]

3. Good point! Bad investment in pharmacists, as you only get 1/2 a pharmacist, or less,

since they claim it's all up to their discretion whether or not they'll fill someone's prescription.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I, personally, don't want a single dime of my tax money going to any religious school or

organization. However, all that 'faith-based' initiative stuff has cost us all.

[progressoid]

9. Yep, even some Democrats are endorsing it.

It's sad when you hear them say something like, "we've seen some positive results from funding these programs" or "we shouldn't discount all faith based programs".

Excuse me while I :puke:

[kestrel91316]

5. Damned "activist judges"!!!1!!11!!!

[Taverner]

7. Right on!

[nealmhughes]

8. I would suspect that Kentucky's law is very similiar to Alabama's, as Alabama followed

first Kentucky and then Tennessee into the Union as slave states, when Jeffersonian Democracy was at its peak.

Even though Alabama has been through umpteen iterations from its original 1818 Constituiton, one thing that hasn't changed is the realization that the people should not have to pay collectively for the religious education of the citizens.

Kentucky has how many public univerities? In every region of the state, no less. If Kentucky needs additional pharmacists, then they need to talk to the legislature and try to get a program started at one of their many univesities publicly funded or the Baptists need to find another teat upon which to suckle.

If the two entities are so keen on providing pharmacist education in that particular location in KY then let the state run the pharmacy school that the Baptists build. Sounds like a problem solved.

Heaven forbid that some secular humanist h*m*s*x**l students tread upon sacred Tribulation Territory, though, so not likely.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. I totally agree

If they need more pharmacists, use the money to start a pharmacy school at one of the existing state universities, or even pay the tuition of people willing to go to another state to study pharmacy for the time being.

[Sam Ervin jret]

11. No public money for Baptists? I'm telling GOD on that Judge!!!!

I wish I were only half kidding. These guys take their religion and the "let me into your state" stuff seriously. They do prayer mapping to get "bad things" out of their neighborhoods and are very organized about it.

Well Judge, I don't think you really have to watch out for a hurricane like they say but you do have to watch out for being BLAMED for a hurricane by them.

But you can just BLAME the GAYS. Eveyone else seems to.