SCOTUS Sides With Christians In Landmark Court Case
(TargetLiberty.org) – The Supreme Court has given its backing to religious schools in a hard-hitting new decision. In a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled it’s unconstitutional to ban schools from federal assistance because they’re faith-based. The debate centered on First Amendment rights, which are under attack from the far left.
In a major win for religious liberty, the Supreme Court sided 6-3 on Tuesday against Maine’s education program, which excludes tuition assistance for students attending religious schools. https://t.co/9HUgRhVDJG
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The latest battle over freedom of religion ended on June 21, when the Supreme Court decided along partisan lines that Maine’s state education board violated the Constitution when it excluded “sectarian” — religious — schools from its tuition assistance program. The state and the federal government argued that taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize religious education; the Justices decided the exclusion violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
Chief Justice John Roberts said in writing the majority opinion, that the Free Exercise Clause bans “indirect coercion or penalties on the free exercise of religion“ — and denying parents funds they could have had if they chose a non-religious school comes under the interpretation. Roberts said a state doesn’t have to subsidize private schools, but once it does, it can’t discriminate against the ones with which it disagrees.
The case was brought to SCOTUS by First Liberty Institute and Institute for Justice, which campaign against encroachments on religious freedom.
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