U.S. Supreme Court rules Maine can't exclude religious schools from govt. tuition assistance program; Sotomayor warns court is dismantling church-state separation

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The US Supreme Court has ruled that the state of Maine cannot exclude private Christian schools from a taxpayer-funded school voucher programme that helps students attend private schools.

 

The 6-3 decision from the high court’s conservative majority in the case of Carson v Makin could have wider implications for impacts to public schools and whether the government is obligated to support religious institutions on the same level as private ones.

 

In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the Supreme Court “continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build.”

 

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/church-state-supreme-court-public-schools-b2106105.html

 

 

 

[Credo]

I wonder how that is going to work out when an Islamic Madras applies for funding to operate a school?

 

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On 6/22/2022 at 7:09 AM, Credo said:

I wonder how that is going to work out when an Islamic Madras applies for funding to operate a school?

 

They'll find a way to blame the liberals on the Supreme Court. Or maybe start calling the 6 right wing justices CINO. Conservatives In Name Only.

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The Supreme Court has repeatedly allowed a privileged positions for religious exemptions from laws. I think we are ultimately going to find out how sincere their commitment to that principle is. A group of Jewish plaintiffs from Florida is suing to forbit the state government from banning abortions for Jews who claim that their religion allows it. I guess we're going to find out if the Supremes think the privileged position of religion only applies to right wing Christians.

 

Is the Religious Liberty Tent Big Enough to Include the Religious Commitments of Jews?

Enter a synagogue in Florida, which filed a complaint in state court last week claiming that the Florida legislature’s new law, which goes into effect July 1, banning almost all pre-viability abortions, violates the state constitution’s religious liberty provisions, which afford even broader protections than those of the federal Constitution. In the complaint, petitioners note that while Florida seeks to ban abortion at 15 weeks’ gestation, “in Jewish law, abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman, or for many other reasons not permitted under the Act.”

This kind of religious liberty claim, assuming away other procedural issues, should be recognizable to those who have successfully obtained religious exemptions from contraceptive coverage requirements under Obamacare, or from civil rights laws protecting LGBTQ Americans, or from public health rules limiting the size of religious gatherings during the pandemic. 

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/do-proponents-of-religious-liberty-really-intend-to-dispute-the-religious-commitments-of-jews.html

Edited June 23, 2022 by placeholder