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Supreme Court: if states fund private schools, they must fund religious schools
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 75130709" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/espinoza-montana-religious-schools-scholarship-supreme-court/index.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark" target="_blank"><em>LINK</em></a></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In a ruling that will open the door to more public funding for religious education, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/church-state-supreme-court-espinosa/index.html" target="_blank">the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor</a> of parents in Montana seeking to use a state scholarship program to send their children to religious schools. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The court said that a Montana tax credit program that directed money to private schools could not exclude religious schools.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1195_g314.pdf" target="_blank">5-4 ruling </a>was penned by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by the court's four conservative justices. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"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," Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.</em></p><p></p><p>I can only hope that taxpayer-supported creationism and madrassas will cause states to realize they should stop funding private schools entirely, but I don't think that will be the case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 75130709, member: 294566"] [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/espinoza-montana-religious-schools-scholarship-supreme-court/index.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark'][I]LINK[/I][/URL] [I] In a ruling that will open the door to more public funding for religious education, [URL='http://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/church-state-supreme-court-espinosa/index.html']the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor[/URL] of parents in Montana seeking to use a state scholarship program to send their children to religious schools. The court said that a Montana tax credit program that directed money to private schools could not exclude religious schools. The [URL='https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1195_g314.pdf']5-4 ruling [/URL]was penned by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by the court's four conservative justices. "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," Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.[/I] I can only hope that taxpayer-supported creationism and madrassas will cause states to realize they should stop funding private schools entirely, but I don't think that will be the case. [/QUOTE]
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