LETTERS: ‘Raise income level for sake of scholarships’; ‘The doom of girls’ and women’s sports’

‘Raise income level for sake of scholarships’

To the editor:

In a new book, “Poverty, by America,” that was covered on an episode of NPR’s Fresh Air, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and researcher, Matthew Desmond, points out that welfare in the U.S. is lopsided.

For example, more money goes to tax breaks for homeowners than to low-income housing — three times as much — billions of dollars each year. Indiana’s state legislators intend to perpetuate lopsided welfare with its proposal to expand private school vouchers — a form of welfare — to the wealthy.

Yes, the confusion pathways should be eliminated to allow easier access for who the program was originally created for — low-income families. But raising the income qualification level to $220,000 for a family of four doesn’t help low-income families.

Passing no accountability measures for private schools does not help low-income families. Right now, private schools, even when receiving state funds can and do discriminate while their public school counterparts must, by law, accept all students at any time (see IndianasChoice.com).

If anything, legislators should be raising the income level to qualify for free preschool, which is currently at $38,000. Now is not the time to raise the income level for Indiana’s Choice Scholarship vouchers.

Keri Miksza, Chair, Indiana Coalition for Public Education, Monroe County

‘The doom of girls’ and women’s sports’

To the editor:

As a father of a daughter and seven granddaughters, I am frustrated with the current trend of allowing males to compete as females in women’s sports.

I know from experience how hard it is to compete in sports as a prior athlete in high school. In addition, I saw my own daughter expend so much of her life and energy to compete at the high school level just to earn a chance at a collegiate athletic scholarship.

There is no way to explain the effort that goes into what these young girls have to endure just to compete at the high school level and even more at the collegiate level.

I believe once it is established that a natural born man can legally transfer to women’s sports and compete, there will be no turning back. The whole purpose of Title IX was to give women an equal chance and now we are removing it from them. This will trickle down to grade school eventually and doom all girls and women’s sports forever. And perhaps that is the plan.

Women of America: Where are your voices and where are the women’s rights groups?

Your precious freedoms are being stripped from you while you watch a biological male take first a place finish in a girl’s sport. Everyone applauds and exclaims “equality for (insert pronoun) is finally here”.

That has to be the biggest deception I think I have ever seen happen to females in all the years I have been alive.

There is more to this than is being promoted by the news media and the NCAA. It is a takeover of basic human identity and soon there will be no reason for girls or women to compete.

President Biden said recently that men competing as women were made in the image of God? I don’t recall reading that anywhere in the Bible, but I do know he created us male and female.

God doesn’t make mistakes. Do we know more than God does? Searching for your identity is not listed an unalienable right in our Bill of Rights. Women and girls’ basic rights come first

So, from a rights perspective, women are being suppressed as this ideology continues and liberal judges hand down their own interpretation of equity for all which hinders freedom.

From a humanity perspective, women are considered by the left as non-existent binary entities. A newly appointed Supreme Court Justice said, “we cannot define what a woman is.”

From a moral perspective, we are spitting in the face of God because He holds women at the highest level of honor. If you do not believe that then, read how God (Jesus) interacted with various women in the scriptures and how he honored his mother.

May the force be with you because girls and women, you have been forced out by diversity, inclusion and equity propagandists.

Curtis Moore, Nashville

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