GO MAINE!
the state of Maine would not support private religious schools with tax dollars
the Trump Supreme Court said no, that’s religious discrimination, you MUST fund these schools, despite the wall between church and state in the Maine Constitution
So, Maine said, get ready fuckers
we have a NEW law, you can’t get tax dollars if you discriminate against LGBTQA persons
which incidentally, all of those private religious schools do
CHECK AND MATE
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When, in 1969, Kress landed his dream job, as an instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp on the Maine coast, the islands he visited seemed desolate, with few species other than large gulls. He wondered if puffins could be transplanted so the birds might once again accept these islands as home. No one had ever tried to transplant a bird species before.
“I just wanted to believe it was possible,” Kress says.
Though a handful of wildlife biologists supported him, others dismissed the idea. There were still plenty of puffins in Iceland, some pointed out; why bother? Others insisted the birds were hard-wired to return only to the place where they had hatched and would never adopt another home. Still others accused Kress of trying to play God.
Kress argued that bringing puffins back to Maine could help the entire species. As for playing God, Kress didn’t see a problem. “We’d been playing the Devil for about 500 years,” says Tony Diamond, a Canadian seabird researcher who has collaborated with Kress for decades. “It was time to join the other side.”
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“Maine Attraction” 🏡🍂 by | Ben Skaar
Rangeley, Maine, United States
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