Where tax payer dollars go to teach Creationism to impressionable young children.

Slate has a map showing where in America public school dollars are spent teaching religion to students, and offers this breakdown as well:Arizona:  

Arizona: As many as 15 schools that teach creationism may be participating in the state’s tax credit scholarship program for disabled children or children attending underperforming schools. (Arizona has not released a list of private schools that have received students on this scholarship.) 

Arkansas: Responsive Education Solutions operates two campuses in Arkansas that use creationist curricula. (See Texas.) 

Colorado: At least eight schools in Douglas County teach creationism while participating in the Douglas County Scholarship Program. 

Florida: At least 164 schools teach creationism while participating in the state’s tax credit scholarship programs for disabled children and children from low-income families. 

Georgia: At least 34 schools teach creationism while participating in the state’s tax credit scholarship program for disabled children. 

Indiana: At least 37 schools teach creationism while participating in the state’s voucher program for children from low-income families. 

Louisiana: The Louisiana Science Education Act of 2008 allows teachers to use “supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner,” specifically theories regarding “evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning”—in effect, allowing creationist material inside classroom. It’s no coincidence that the Discovery Institute, a creationist think tank that provides such “supplemental textbooks,” helped write the bill, which the American Association for the Advancement of Science described as an “assault against scientific integrity.” 

Ohio: At least 20 schools teach creationism while participating in a tax credit scholarship program for children in underperforming public schools.

The article lists several more states such as Texas, Tennessee,  Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma.

I think most of us can agree that NO tax dollars should go to help spread superstition standing in for science in our public classrooms. The fact that it is being done is simply another reason why it is important to get as many Bible thumpers out of office as possible, and start bringing our educational standards up to where we can compete adequately with every other industrialized nation.

It is no secret that the reason religious conservatives want faith taught in public schools as fact is because faith makes minds more malleable and easier to control, and facts set them free. 

After all facts are facts, and faith is faith is faith, and never the twain shall meet.