A perfect example of the strings attached when government funds something. Ostensibly, the program is designed to provide school lunches for needy kids. (I know it covers a lot more than the needy kids now.) Now, unless a school gets with the social engineering agenda of the government — or any other cause it wants to push — well, I guess that’s just too bad for the kids. Of course, I expect most public schools will comply. It would be nice if more schools would follow the lead of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and find alternatives so they can tell the feds where to shove their lunches.
Protecting federally funded school lunches from political whims, could be a conservative campaign point.
Not a major one, but it’s one more thing that can sway voters.
Why?
Where are the GOP adds about the rats withholding food from children unless the school goes along with the LBTG fascists? Well?
and you watch when a republican president does away with the requirements they will be accused of ‘;causing irreparable harm to lgbtq students’ blah blah blah
If you take ANY money from Government, you are controlled by them.
If a child’s parents can’t figure out a way to pack them a simple lunch, then the child really should be at a public school anyway.
No government funds, no government control.
I think SCOTUS ruled against discrimination towards religious schools. So the USDA is “agreeing” to follow the court.
I guess we are supposed to be grateful about this?
I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.
Earlier this month... a private Christian school in Tampa, Florida, had to file a lawsuit against the administration in order to secure a religious exemption from the rule, which could have forced the school to comply with policies on bathrooms, pronouns, hiring, and dress codes.Represented by ADF [Alliance Defending Freedom], the school was granted an exemption by the state’s agricultural department, restoring the funds for its school lunch program.
Erica Steinmiller-Perdomo, legal counsel at ADF, [said]... that it took a lawsuit for the administration to backtrack on forcing religious schools to comply with its “radical push to redefine what it means to be male or female in federal law.”
“After ADF’s lawsuit, USDA made clear that they will automatically respect religious exemptions under Title IX for religious schools—for now,”...[b]ut public schools, charter schools, and secular private schools... remain under threat. Plus, other federal laws that lack religious exemptions may also apply. As long as the Biden Administration seeks to redefine what it means to be male or female in all federal laws, religious schools risk being punished just for maintaining Christian beliefs,” she added…