The Supreme Court Further Dismantles the Establishment Clause, Empowers Religious Parents to Obtain Taxpayer Funds for Sectarian Schools, and Ignores the Rights of the Children in Carson v. Makin

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Yet the Court criticizes Maine for having different curriculum requirements for public and private schools, saying that proves the state is not neutral as to religion and not really that dedicated to an equivalent education for all students in the state.
52% : In that case, the Court held that the First Amendment permitted the Amish to remove their children from school in violation of Wisconsin's compulsory education laws.
51% : The Invisible Children in the Carson OpinionsOne of the more interesting elements of the case is that the Court majority refuses to give any deference to the state's explanation of its interest in a free public education for all students in the state.
46% : Their not-so-implicit point is that Maine's interest in public education is not so valuable when weighed against religious parents' right to choose to put their children in schools whose religious "worldview aligns with their sincerely held religious beliefs."
45% : If education were steeped in religious faith, it was no longer public education, and taxpayers would be paying into religious coffers.
29% : Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion in Carson confirms that no longer does a majority of the Supreme Court fear the tyranny that inevitably results from a union of church and state power or even feel the need to acknowledge the cautionary history that the Framer of the First Amendment, James Madison, laid out in his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments.

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