Supreme Court strikes down Maine law that discriminated against religious schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% :"The First Amendment begins by forbidding the government from 'mak[ing]
55% : The court held in a 6-3 ruling that Maine's prohibition on using private school tuition assistance for religious schools violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
54% : Those cases concerned a religious preschool in Missouri that was denied benefits from a state program and a Montana scholarship program that excluded private religious schools, respectively.
51% : In a victory for religious liberty and school choice, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a Maine law that unconstitutionally discriminated against sectarian schools.
49% : The state pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious.
43% : The program made funds available to assist these families with private or charter school tuition, provided that the chosen school met state accreditation requirements and that it was "nonsectarian in accordance with the First Amendment."

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