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There’s nothing new about Republican-controlled states funneling money to religious schools that refuse to admit LGBTQ+ kids. Even so, Arkansas has taken it to what seems to be a new level.
The Arkansas Department of Education promoted a video on a specific Christian school’s participation in the state’s new voucher program. This was not a video on the voucher program as a whole that happened to mention a Christian school. It was two minutes and 30 seconds of an administrator and families at the school talking about it. Dave Ramsey of the Arkansas Times reported that Cornerstone Christian Academy, where a voucher will cover an entire year’s tuition, has 64 voucher students out of 150 total.
“Each child is different, each child is unique, and we believe they are designed uniquely perfect,” an administrator said in the video. Except if they’re LGBTQ+, apparently. Ramsey followed up with a report confirming that Cornerstone Christian Academy’s policy is:
The significance the Bible places on the severity of sexual immorality, and our commitment to a “Christ-centered” environment demands certain standards for admittance to CCA. Therefore, students will NOT be permitted to attend CCA who professes any sort of sexually immoral lifestyle or an openly sinful lifestyle including but not limited to: promiscuity, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc.
