Opinion | Woe to us if the Supreme Court hears the case of a Catholic-run charter school

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The U.S. spends over $700 billion on public K-12 schools every year.
56% : Make no mistake: America's Christian right is taking direct aim at secular public education, but let's not forget that it is also after the money.
52% : Given the record of the Supreme Court's right-wing majority in cases involving so-called religious freedom, supporters of St. Isidore have good reason to believe that majority will say St. Isidore can use public money to support its sectarian program -- clearing the way for a future in which large amounts of money flow from local, state and federal treasuries into religious networks with clear political agendas and significant influence over public education.
51% : The clinic's director, Stephanie Barclay, clerked for Justice Neil Gorsuch and litigated cases for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
50% : The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is representing Faith Bible Chapel International in a case arguing for a "ministerial exception" to anti-discrimination laws at religious schools.
50% : Given the tolerance for discrimination in the name of religion that the Supreme Court has demonstrated in cases such as Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., which let certain companies deny birth control coverage to their employees, and in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, which says fired clergy cannot sue for discrimination, and given the court's eagerness to support the public funding of religious schools it has demonstrated in Carson v. Makin, it is reasonable to fear two things: that this court will decide not only that tax dollars can be used to fund religious schools but also that religious schools are exempt from laws that protect students and employees alike from broad categories of discrimination.
48% : The principle may sound equitable, but in practice it is a lightly disguised means of privileging conservative Christians.Consider, too, that in December, former Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor said recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for public funding for schools that promote religious doctrines and are under sectarian control.
47% : Since the 19th century, when the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations asked for a share of tax money to fund their own sectarian religious schools, it has been a matter of settled constitutional law that commingling public education and sectarian religion is impermissible.
44% : If the Faith Bible Chapel International and St. Isidore cases are heard before this Supreme Court, it seems likely that public education in the U.S. is about to change for the worse in the same way the Dobbs ruling changed women's health care for the worse.
39% : ET): The Supreme Court Friday agreed to review an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that said the charter school proposal violates the state and federal constitutions.
35% : Oklahoma law specifically prohibits charter schools from being sectarian.

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