Supreme Court ruled that if a state has a program that allows people to use state funding to pay for education, it can't cite state constitutional limits on religious aid in barring parents from using the funds for religious schools. Latest ruling expanding religious rights
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"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," Chief Justice Roberts writes
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The ruling is yet another this term in which Roberts is in the majority when the court is split 5-4. 11 cases and counting...http://reut.rs/2NHRqFA
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Justice Alito's opinion is long on history of anti-Catholic bias that was behind states enacting constitutional amendments that barred aid to religious entities. It includes this 19th C cartoon from Harpers showing Catholic priests as crocodilespic.twitter.com/XJ858pujm9
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U.S. Supreme Court allows public money for religious schools in major rulinghttps://reut.rs/38h7zuM
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In dissent, Justice Breyer warns that the ruling will lead to "entanglement and conflict" over balance to strike between ensuring free exercise of religion while protecting against dismantling the separation of church and state
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Such BS!!
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Separation of church and state much? Damn. -
Yes- that's exactly what the court is upholding here.
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