Religious Liberty Win - Supreme Court Strikes Maine Law That Funded Secular But Not Religious Private Education

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : But BCS and Temple Academy -- like numerous other recipients of Maine tuition assistance payments -- are not public schools.
54% : In Maine School Funding Case:On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging a Maine policy which provides state funds for students who do not have a local public secondary school to attend private school, but not private religious school.
53% : But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."
51% : However, the Maine program only allows tuition payments to go to private schools that are "nonsectarian" - that is, schools that do not provide religious instruction.
51% : The question presented is whether this restriction violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment....Maine may provide a strictly secular education in its public schools.
51% : Maine chose to allow some parents to direct state tuition payments to private schools; that decision was not "forced upon" it.
48% : Instead, some districts make arrangements with specific private schools or other public schools to take their students.
48% : Maine's "nonsectarian" requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
43% : Here's how Scotusblog described the issues in the case issues and background:The dispute, Carson v. Makin, centers on the system that Maine uses to ensure that all school-aged children in the state have an opportunity to receive a free public education.
43% : Most private schools are eligible to receive the payments, so long as they are "nonsectarian."

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