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August 29, 2019

Maryland Wants to Deny Financial Aid to Low-Income Students Attending Schools That Reject Fashionable Views of Sexuality

The state lets you choose your sex, but not your religion.

In its school handbook, the Bethel Christian Academy affirms its commitment to what it considers “biblical” ideas of marriage and sex, and states that “faculty, staff, and students are required to identify with, dress in accordance with, and use the facilities associated with their biological gender.” Maryland education officials have decided that this is grounds to exclude the school from the state’s educational voucher program, which allows students to use public funds to defray the cost of private school. Inez Feltscher Stepman comments:

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