Taxpayer Money is Going to Fund Religious Schools

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Brad speaks to Rachel Laser, President and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. They discuss AU's lawsuit with the ACLU and FFRF in the case of the state of Oklahoma agreeing to send taxpayer funds to a Catholic school. This is, in essence, an attempt to make Christian schools into public schools. From AU: And public schools must be secular and open to all students. They are not allowed to discriminate against students or indoctrinate children into one religion. But that is exactly what Oklahoma’s newly approved religious public charter school, St. Isidore of Seville, intends to do. Approved by the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board in June 2023, St. Isidore would be a public school—entirely funded by the taxpayers of Oklahoma—even though St. Isidore makes clear in its charter school application that it intends to run the school “as a Catholic school” and a “place of evangelization.” That’s why Americans United along with the ACLU, Freedom from Religion Foundation and Education Law Center is suing. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ To Donate: venmo - @straightwhitejc Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an irreverent podcast.
0:03.7	Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.
0:22.4	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:24.1	My name is Brad O'Neighe, faculty at the University of San Francisco.
0:27.5	Our guest today is a return guest.
0:29.9	Someone who I had the privilege of meeting in DC a couple of months ago and interviewing.
0:34.1	And I get to interview again.
0:35.1	And that is Rachel Lazar.
0:36.3	So Rachel, thanks for being here.
0:38.1	Thanks so much for having me on again.
0:39.8	I'm a huge fan.
0:41.1	So a lot of people are going to know this.
0:42.4	But you are the president and CEO of Americans United for separation of church and state.
0:47.0	We here at Straight White American Jesus had the privilege of making a really cool set of podcasts.
0:53.1	Interviews with Americans United and everyone should check that out.
0:56.5	It's called One Nation All Beliefs.
0:59.1	You are a lawyer, an advocate and a strategist.
1:01.6	You have been working on issues related to so many things, including separation of church and state for decades now.
1:09.1	And today we're here to talk about something that's actually really, really, really important, really close to the heart of this show.
1:14.0	And I think really something a lot of folks around the country are going to want to know about.
1:17.4	And that is the fact that in June, Oklahoma's statewide virtual charter public school board, which is a mouthful.
1:25.6	Oklahoma's statewide virtual charter school board voted to approve the nation's first religious public charter school.
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