The ruling lays the groundwork for a legal effort to undermine the principle of universal, secular, public education.
During the angst-laden wait for the Supreme Court’s ruling on, the court made hay trashing other vital precedents in its stampede to remake the country’s legal priorities in an extreme-right direction.
That Supreme Court-endorsed wall separating public funding from religious education started to break down in the following decade, as the court’s composition shifted rightward. In a six-three ruling issued Tuesday, the Supreme Court declared that the Maine restrictions were discriminatory against religion and against religious people, and ruled the law — which emerged out of the bedrock principle of separation of church and state — null and void.
Religious schools don’t have to adhere to state standards or abide by anti-discrimination laws — the schools involved in the lawsuit don’t accept gay students. Moreover, religious schools don’t have to teach secular subjects, such as science, that would be mandated in any public school.
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