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U.S. Supreme Court rulings open door to public funds for private schools; challenges remain

by | Aug 22, 2022 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

At least three decades of effort in Minnesota to broaden school choice to include religious and other private schools received a boost from a June U.S. Supreme Court decision, Carson v. Makin, when the high court clearly determined: “A state need not subsidize private education but once a state decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”

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Special legislative session on school safety? MN Catholic Conference says do it

by | May 25, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

“There will not be #mnleg alignment on common-sense gun regulation, but this is something we can do immediately (to) protect our students. Gov. Walz and Sen. Miller have communicated to us their support in principle for this bill, and it is time to get it done,” MCC continued in its Twitter thread. 

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MCC sees a counseling ban in governor’s order restricting ‘conversion therapy’

by | Jul 21, 2021 | , , , , , , , | 0 |

A July 15 executive order from Gov. Tim Walz restricts a practice he describes as “conversion therapy.” But Jason Adkins, executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, views it as a counseling ban that denies young people who struggle with gender discordance and same-sex attraction access to the psychological sciences that could help them live in harmony with their bodies and with a healthy, rightly ordered sexuality that promotes human flourishing.

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MCC director: In living Catholic social teaching, prioritize most vulnerable

by | Mar 31, 2021 | , , , , | 0 |

Providing access to health care, organizing a business, making decisions about consumption and participating in politics — all should be geared first to helping the weakest and most vulnerable, said Jason Adkins, executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, as he reflected on ways to live out Catholic social teaching.

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MCC outlines priorities, expectations in legislative session

by | Feb 19, 2020 | , , , , , | 0 |

A divided state government and looming November elections will flavor initiatives and debate in the Minnesota Legislature as lawmakers convene at the State Capitol in St. Paul over the next four months.
A bonding bill is likely to pass; finding compromises and common ground in other areas in an election year will determine how much more gets done, said Jason Adkins, executive director and general counsel of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. 

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