KY Supremes Slap Down Freakazoids

h/t Jake.

It appears the Kentucky Supreme Court is far more liberal than the big Supremes in D.C.: Kentucky's court just denied state funding to a school that uses religion as an excuse to discriminate.

From AP:

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Baptist university can't keep $11 million awarded by state lawmakers some four years ago to open a pharmacy school.

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Justice Lisabeth Abramson, writing for the majority, said the appropriations violated two sections of the state constitution.

"If Kentucky needs to expand the opportunities for pharmacy school education within the commonwealth, the Kentucky General Assembly may most certainly address that pressing public need, but not by appropriating public funds to an educational institution that is religiously affiliated," Abramson wrote.

Abramson also said the scholarship program "is precisely the type of special privilege and favoritism" that the constitution condemns.

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The gay-rights group Kentucky Fairness Alliance filed the lawsuit in 2006 after the University of the Cumberlands expelled a gay student for posting comments about his sexual orientation and dating life on the Internet. Attorneys for the organization tried using the expulsion to bolster their arguments in the lawsuit that the school shouldn't receive funding from Kentucky taxpayers.

Read the whole thing, but don't celebrate too much.

Media Czech brings us a timely a reminder that the Xian Taliban is alive and well in Kentucky and attacking liberal lawmakers.