“North Carolina has become an important battleground for church-state separation,” said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United. “At a time when public schools are facing unprecedented challenges to serve students in the midst of a pandemic, it is unjust and unfair to divert much-needed funding to private schools.”
A few days ago, the American Family Association (AFA), a Christian nationalist group based in Mississippi, issued an email headlined, “Quit letting public schools destroy your children.”
It turns out that some of the religious organizations that received PPP loans under the first pandemic relief bill were hardly in dire financial straits.