Religious schools win Supreme Court fight for taxpayer dollars

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Alleging violations of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, a pair of Maine parents -- David and Amy Carson and Troy and Angela Nelson -- brought a discrimination case against the state's Department of Education Commission.
50% : "The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious.
50% : "Legislators also recognized that these private schools make religiously based enrollment and hiring decisions," Breyer wrote.
43% : The sectarian schools have religious-based standards for student admissions and faculty hires including policies against homosexuality and required agreements on beliefs related to abortion.
31% : In a separate dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer -- joined by Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan -- pointed to policies used at the schools in question, including denying enrollment to students based on gender, gender identity and sexual orientation.

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