Backed by state money, Georgia scholarships go to schools barring gays
by The New York Times
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ATLANTA — As the nation works its way through the debate over vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public education funding, a quieter battle over homosexuality, religious education and school tax money is under way in Georgia.

At issue is an increasingly popular tax credit program that transforms state money into private school scholarships, some of them used at religious-based schools that prohibit gay, lesbian or bisexual students to attend.

The policies at more than 100 such schools are explicit.

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jarnoldcr
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January 21, 2013
I've never read an article in which the writer expressed concern about the government accepting money from families who "punish, denounce and even demonize" LGBT individuals (as expressed in the full article) in the form of local property taxes that fund state education- which is compulsory whether the families attend state schools or not...but to give such families state money is apparently reprehensible.
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