Christian Preschool Denied State Funding Unless It Forgoes Biblical Beliefs And Morality

Harbinger Daily ^ | 7/17/23 | staff

[CFW]

A private Christian preschool has issued a complaint of religious discrimination against Colorado state officials.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys are representing Darren Patterson Christian Academy, which runs a preschool called “Busy Bees” in Buena Vista, Colorado. The academy was denied state funding of the new universal preschool program (“UPK”) unless it forgoes its religious character, beliefs and exercise.

Effective July 1, the UPK program gives every 4-year-old in Colorado a minimum of 15 hours per week of free preschool services for the next year. All licensed preschools in Colorado have been encouraged to join the program, but they must comply with its rules or be excluded from the funding.

Although Darren Patterson Christian Academy applied and was accepted into the UPK program, it later learned of the program’s nondiscrimination provisions involving employment decisions and gender orientation. In May, the school requested a religious exemption alongside other faith-based groups—and was denied.

[CFW]

Liberal states just ignore Court rulings in which they disagree. Much like Colorado ignored the SCOTUS ruling the in Masterpiece Cakeshop case, they are ignoring previous rulings that a state cannot discriminate against religious schools when it comes to state funding programs.

These states just continue to discriminate since they know it will take years for a case to wind its way back to SCOTUS. Meanwhile, the harm against the school and the students that were to benefit, is already done.

Until the people implementing these rules are found personally liable, such discrimination will continue.

[gitmo]

Christian schools don’t get funding because they won’t molest their children.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. And government money ALWAYS comes with strings attached.

[antidemoncrat]

When people say “God bless America” I wonder why would He do that?

[ducttape45]

It’s high time for everyone with a conscious to leave Colorado. In many ways, it’s now become worse than California in terms of its politics. How could the people out there be so stupid as to elect the socialists into office? They’ve destroyed their state as they did in California.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They don’t get funding because they won’t teach 4 year olds that boys can be girls if they cut their pee pees off and girls can be boys if they cut their tee tees off.

[SaveFerris]

[Christian Preschool Denied State Funding Unless It Forgoes Biblical Beliefs And Morality]

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[SeekAndFind]

If you’re a Christian school, it is a VERY BAD IDEA to depend on government for your funding.

Stay far, far away from it.

Rely on God and the church instead.

[dfwgator]

Why I’m not a fan of school vouchers.

[Bob434]

Because there is still a very large “remnant” of true believers who still fight the good fight, trying to keep evil from having unfettered reign in America. Thye are part of what God calls the “restrainer” movement. If it weren’t for true Christians and other folks fighting evil. Evil would run rampant with nothing to oppose it.

I do beleive however, that we are rapidly losing the fight as more and more liberal hellholes are simply ignoring laws and regulations and the constitution, and punishing anyone that tries to stop them, as in the Jan 6 prisoners who were incarcerated for exercising their first a,endment rights.

[bk1000]

“Until the people implementing these rules are found personally liable, such discrimination will continue.”

It would only take a few for the others to get the message.

[Alberta's Child]

If your business needs government funding to stay afloat, then it's not "religious" in any sense of the word.

This is why that whole move to provide government support to religious schools and non-profit groups back in the GWB administration was one of the most lame-brained ideas to come out of a Republican administration.

The better approach is to push for a program where the government hands a voucher to parents to cover these pre-school costs, and the parents can use them wherever the hell they want.

[Mlheureux]

Like taking 30 pieces of silver. Tell the Colorado Govt KMA.

[MayflowerMadam]

A true Christian school would not consider taking one single penny from the government.

[ronnie raygun]

Government money is OUR money

[CFW]

“A true Christian school would not consider taking one single penny from the government.”

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That is true. It should be funded by the community and supportive businesses in the area.

We have a Church camp for youth in our area that has been in operation since around the 40s. My children went there over 30 years ago, and my grandson started attending a few years ago when he became old enough (age 9). They are supported totally by local churches and donations from individuals, including supplies of foods and paper products for meals.

The camp has all the great things we remember from our childhood 4H or church camping. Log cabins, swimming in the lake, camp fire night, horse-back riding, etc. The weeks are separate for girls and boys and counselors for the females are female and males are counselors for males.

Every night there is group church services at the chapel and attendance is required.

In the off season different church groups provide services for camp maintenance. Cabin repairs, tree trimming, painting, pressure-washing are services donated by groups or local businesses.

No tax dollars needed. God always supplies.

[MayflowerMadam]

That sounds like our summer Bible camp in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Best memories of my life.

No mixed swimming! Girls first, then the boys.

Buffalo area churches funded it totally.
My parents went when they were in high school in the ‘40s, and it’s still going strong although the format may have changed a bit.

Once government offers to “help”, things get worse, and they own you.

[Salman]

No religious institution must ever accept state funding in the first place. It was always a form of corruption, and the inevitable happened.

[antceecee]

They are not “elected” they are “selected”.

[Wuli]

If, where and when the people are provding public funds for education, it must be for education, period, and not to protect any education institution, and must go where the parents want it to go, be it a public institutiton or a private institution that may be either secular or religious based.