Christer school vouchers turning out to be exactly the ruse that cynics always suspected they were

Louisiana Dist. 64 Rep. Valerie Hodges, left, and Louisiana
Governor Bobby Jindal, whose school voucher program
Hodges now opposes. Hodges: “I actually support funding
for teaching the fundamentals of ...Christianity, in public
schools or private schools. I do not support using public
funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana.”

In its reporting of the partisan machinations of Louisiana Republican State Rep. Valarie Hodges, who was stupidly outraged by her recent breathless discovery that Louisiana Muslims, as well as Christers, will be able to use state school vouchers, Towleroad reminded its readers of a Reuters expose of some of those schools last month:

The school willing to accept the most voucher students -- 314 -- is New Living Word in Ruston, which has a top-ranked basketball team but no library. Students spend most of the day watching TVs in bare-bones classrooms. Each lesson consists of an instructional DVD that intersperses Biblical verses with subjects such chemistry or composition.
     ... At Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake pastor-turned-principal Marie Carrier hopes to secure extra space to enroll 135 voucher students, though she now has room for just a few dozen. Her first- through eighth-grade students sit in cubicles for much of the day and move at their own pace through Christian workbooks, such as a beginning science text that explains "what God made" on each of the six days of creation. They are not exposed to the theory of evolution.
     "We try to stay away from all those things that might confuse our children," Carrier said.
     Other schools approved for state-funded vouchers use social studies texts warning that liberals threaten global prosperity ...

Meanwhile, via the Omaha Coalition of Reason's facebook page:

The Omaha Coalition of Reason billboard is up on the northwest corner of 72nd & Pacific St. in Omaha! The billboard officially announces the Omaha CoR and heralds the coming 4th annual Midwest Freethought Conference to he held at UNO on August 3-5th. Check out the conference website for more information.