In a victory for religious liberty, equal opportunity, and (to a somewhat lesser extent) school choice, the Supreme Court ruled against a Maine tuition program that blocked district-funded tuition from being used at religious schools. As is usually the case where religious freedom is concerned, though, the left is having an absolute meltdown over it.
Maine’s “nonsectarian” requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Regardless of how the benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise.
Justice Breyer wrote a heated (and pretty pouty) dissent to this ruling, hinting at his belief in the non-existent “separation of church and state” the left likes to claim exists.
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