Support for school vouchers has become one of the myriad of strategies used by some Republicans to convince Americans that only they care about religious people in America. The transparent logic goes, 'See, we'll give your Christian schools money. We must love you! Especially when you vote for us.' It helps that this vote-seeking melds with the general conservative idea that equal education is not something that the government is capable or obligated to provide.

Luckily, our friends in the blogosphere have been active in taking on the idea that people of faith must blindly buy into the vouchers bonanza. As Peter Laarman writes over at the Huffington Post,

School choice, as part of the GOP’s “Values Agenda,? is quite deliberately framed in biblical terms to appeal to both the white “values base? of the party and to anguished African-American parents whose children may be doing poorly in school whether or not the school itself is underperforming.

Other incisive faithful critiques come from Mik over at JSpot, Bruce at Mainstream Baptist, and the Talk to Action crowd. We're working on getting an education resources page together here at FPL to join the topic-based resources we already offer to the community.