Another 'Blaine Amendment' Bites the Dust

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% :Catholic teachers at public schools who refused to participate in reading the King James Bible were dismissed, while Catholic students were harassed and persecuted.
66% : On Tuesday, the high court ruled in Carson v. Makin that Maine's law prohibiting government money from going to private religious schools violates the First Amendment's Free Exercise of Religion clause.
59% : The plaintiffs in this case had chosen Bangor Christian Schools and Temple Academy as their private schools of choice, but the government deemed them "sectarian," and they were disqualified from receiving government funds.
54% : The Supreme Court ruled that parents have the right to educate their children at private religious schools, a right the government could not violate.
47% : Oregon had passed a law in 1922 requiring students to attend public schools, with the aim of eradicating parochial education.
45% : It was against this backdrop of nativist sentiment that James Blaine proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting funds to Catholic institutions:No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, nor any public lands devoted thereto, shall ever be under the control of any religious sect; nor shall any money so raised or lands so devoted be divided between religious sects or denominations.
45% :That ruling built on the 2017 high court case Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, where the court -- with Roberts again writing for the majority -- held that Missouri's ban on federal money going toward religious schools violates the First Amendment.
44% : The caption reads, "Religious liberty is guaranteed -- but can we allow foreign reptiles to crawl all over US?"The predominantly Protestant government opposed "sectarian" schools because of fears that such schools would fail to integrate their mostly German and Irish Catholic immigrant population into Protestant America.
41% : Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority (which includes Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett), noted, "The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious.

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