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Karen Pence’s Anti-LGBTQ School Got $725K in COVID Bailout Funds

New Civil Rights Movement | December 7, 2020

Topics: Accountable.US, anti-LGBTQ discrimination, coronavirus, COVID-19, Immanuel Christian School, Karen Pence, Paycheck Protection Program, Title IX, Title VII

The school is out front with its anti-LGBTQ politics, yet that didn’t stop Trump’s administration from offering them nearly three-quarters of a million dollars through the Paycheck Protection Program.

The Immanuel Christian private school in Springfield, Virginia bans LGBTQ teachers and students because “homosexual acts and lifestyles are clearly perversions and reprehensible in the sight of God,” at least, according to its employment application.

Unfortunately, the school got $725,000 in bail-out funds from the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a financial stimulus program designed to help keep businesses afloat during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence teaches at the school.

“It is shameful that an institution that discriminates against LGBT Americans received nearly $1 million in taxpayer funds,” Kyle Herrig, president of government watchdog group Accountable.US, said in a statement to The Washington Blade. “This money was meant to help mom and pop small businesses meet payroll and keep the lights on — instead the wealthy and well-connected cashed in.”

Current federal law doesn’t prohibit anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the distribution of PPP funds, the publication adds, even with federal laws like Title VII and Title IX  requiring equal opportunities regardless of gender in schools.

Written by Daniel Villareal, The New Civil Rights Movement. Image via NCRM.

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