Comment: Supreme Court erodes wall between church, state | HeraldNet.com

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : And remarkably, it does all this in the name of religious liberty, giving the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment primacy over the establishment clause found in the exact same amendment.
48% : And in a passage destined to be cited by future litigants, he raised the most worrisome prospect of what is coming next: Does the holding mean "that a school district that pays for public schools must pay equivalent funds to parents who wish to send their children to religious schools?"
46% : It would mean that states would have to fund Catholic schools, yeshivas and madrasas so long as the state pays for public schools.
45% : The framers' conception of the two religion clauses of the First Amendment had two parts that fit together.
39% : That meant the states could choose not to pay for religious education without the court saying that the choice amounted to a violation of the religious liberty of the person who wanted to get religious education paid for.

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