One of my favorite questions to ask conservatives is “which federal departments would you abolish?” My favorite five are (in order): 1) the Department of Education, 2) the Environmental Protection Agency, 3) the Department of Energy, 4), the Internal Revenue Service, 5)  the Department of Commerce. And cut all funding for PBS, NPR, and the National Endowment for the Arts, of course.

Well, not everyone likes the idea of abolishing departments, but I have an article showing why Christians should at least support the elimination of the Department of Education.

Here’s an article from the Christian Post:

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the U.S. Department of Education unlawfully denied nonprofit status to Grand Canyon University, one of the country’s largest Christian higher education institutions.

In a 3-0 decision, the panel instructed the department to revisit GCU’s status using the correct legal standard under the Higher Education Act. The department overstepped its authority by using an incorrect standard, the court ruled.

[…]The nonprofit status grants the university access to federal funds and research grants, especially given its large Hispanic student population, Mueller told Fox News last year.

Without nonprofit classification, GCU had been barred from accessing these resources.

The university states that it has kept tuition frozen for 17 years, an uncommon achievement in higher education, even as it has increased enrollment, expanded academic programs and invested in infrastructure.

It’s just another case of the weaponization of government by the secular left:

GCU was also hit with a $37.7 million fine from the department last November, alleging that the university misled students about the costs of the doctoral program. The fine is significantly larger than other institutions’ penalties, such as those issued to Penn State and Michigan State. GCU is appealing the fine.

In an interview with The Christian Post last year, Mueller called the fine “tyranny from federal government agencies” and vowed to stand up “to ensure this type of ideological government overreach and weaponization of federal agencies does not happen to others.”

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona threatened to shut down GCU during an April House Appropriations Committee hearing.

So, this is a very helpful story for explaining to people who did not vote for Trump why Trump-supporters voted for Trump.

What I’ve found is that people on the secular left tend to help themselves to the idea that they are pure and good and true, and everyone who opposes them is a “domestic terrorist”. And because their opponents are “domestic terrorists”, they have to use the government as a weapon against them. I think that Christians and conservatives got tired of paying taxes to people who think like that. Now what we need is to shut down as much government as possible, so that the people in government have to find ways to live that involve doing productive work for customers in the competitive private sector. No more virtue signaling during office hours.