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Wednesday, June 12, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: C. J. Doyle [email protected] www.fosbc.org Three Granite State media entities---abetted by a Democrat State Senator---have combined to vilify a small Catholic school in a crude ploy to sabotage an upcoming vote on voucher expansion. Tomorrow, the New Hampshire Legislature will vote on expanding its nationally acclaimed school choice initiative---the Educational Freedom Account program. Proponents of parental rights and choice in education are seeking to raise the program eligibility for a family of four from 300% to 425% of the federal poverty level. Last week, the left-wing, low circulation Keene Sentinel published a hatchet job on Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Richmond. The small school's offense? The traditional religious order which administers the school---the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary---has been arbitrarily designated a 'hate group' by the profiteering charlatans of America's thought police, the uber progressive and long discredited Southern Poverty Law Center. So the Sentinel produced a screaming headline about public funds going to a hate group, while a longtime opponent of school choice, left-wing Democrat State Senator Donovan Fenton (that really is his name) tried to incite a moral panic: "It’s really scary where this EFA money is going and who it’s going to...for people who, you know, are teaching these religious issues that a lot of people don’t agree with or are labeled a hate group." The hit piece was then picked up by the Concord Monitor and by the paradigms of political correctness at state funded New Hampshire Public Radio. Meanwhile, the Keene Sentinel doubled down with an editorial and a letter to the editor recycling the same old smears. Among the reckless, groundless and extravagant charges made by the media was that a religious order which believed in the traditional teachings of the Catholic Faith was, somehow, the moral equivalent of the American Nazi Party. The Friends of Saint Benedict Center called the media campaign, launched eight days before the legislative vote, "a desperate, cynical, subtle-as-a-train-wreck bid to derail voucher expansion by inciting public hysteria over voucher recipients." Friends of Saint Benedict Center Communications Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "The movement for school choice and parental rights is rising all across America, and New Hampshire is leading the way. The powerful vested interests which control the public education monopoly are threatened by this movement, and will stop at nothing to undermine it. It is an unequal contest: ordinary parents, citizens and taxpayers against entrenched bureaucrats, teachers unions, media elites and much of the nation's political class. A prairie fire of popular outrage however, is growing throughout the United States, over the extremism and dysfunction of public schools. Despite the odds, the parents are winning, and the legacy media, with all its mendacious tricks, no longer controls the public narrative." For more detailed coverage of this media conspiracy to block voucher expansion, read the article at Catholicism.org by C. J. Doyle. Comments are closed.
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