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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 113 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

School of Satan incoming...

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Going to have the best band class in all of Ohio.

🤘

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The best damned band in the land

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like midwestern metals back on the menu boyssss

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Copper, Pyrite, LETS FUCKING GO!

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 3 weeks ago

law paused while they try to work out how to make it legal to only allow good Christian schools

How it usually goes as soon as another religion tries to do it.

Or puts up religious imagery

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 71 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If ever a religious institution wanted a clear path to taxation, this is surely it.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago

well if we were following the rules this wouldn't be happening in the first place.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 62 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is bad. I'm so tired of people doing bad things. Stop undermining public education you donkeys.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

It is pathetic in a way how desperate they are to prop themselves up with taxpayer funds. They know their ideas can't succeed on their own merits. They need state muscle to help coerce people to believe their myths.

Freeloading companies need to be taxed properly.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 59 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So that’s a prima facie violation of the establishment clause.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Heh, I didn’t realize we had an animated Clarence Thomas gif

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's the judge in the Simpsons if you want to find more

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ahhhhhh I forgot about that character. Haven’t watched the Simpsons in ages

It's hilarious that there's a huge chance it's still just Clarence Thomas.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Very ~~faschy~~ facie indeed

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a Fiscally Responsible Republican and I'd MUCH RATHER have My Taxdollars go to Church then to STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!

-Ohio Republicans knowing their State REJECTED Federal Dollars to Feed Starving Children because it was Deemed Fiscally Irresponsible!

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

This is literally their thinking.

They alone want to control who gets to benefit from charity. They want to be the arbiters of who is worthy of God's love and who should suffer under his might.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

  • Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Richard Price.
[–] Enthusiasticwhale@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Man... Whatever happened to separation of church and state

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Enthusiasticwhale@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If we're using tax payer money to fund religious private schools it ain't separated

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

I meant that the separation of church and state got separated from our government.

This is definitely a pretty clear violation of the separation clause.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh it’s ok I got a more secular education at a religious school in Ohio than my public school friends did

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So how do I do something to help? I live a few states over and don't want my representatives getting any ideas.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

I just donated to Freedom From Religion Foundation, which files lawsuits challenging attempts like this to undermine church-state separation

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I've heard that the young'uns call "ohio" things that are weird and cringey.

[–] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's mainly used to describe something depressing, but weird and cringe work too

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not quite, Ohio is where the weird or broken things come from

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Can confirm, I live in Canada and my 13 year old daughter and her friends make Ohio jokes

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Riots are the language of the voiceless"

-Usually. Sometimes it's just drunken assholes.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

Mostly football (futbol) fans.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

Gerrymandering is a hell of a drug.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Proving why Gen Alpha memes/uses skibidi Ohio.

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Problem -

Reaction -

Solution

OHIO

It's not related really, but seeing this article about Ohio doing something stupid reminded me of this article, and specifically the Instagram propaganda shown off within.

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago

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