SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Religious Freedom and School Choice

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, "This is great victory for religious freedom and school choice.
63% : For 40 years, Maine's law has unconstitutionally discriminated against parents regarding private schools based on religion.
56% : The High Court considered whether a 1982 Maine law violates the First Amendment by excluding religious schools from the state's "tuitioning system," which pays for students to attend private schools.
53% : However, since 1982, the state has only allowed tuition payments under the program to go to private schools that do not provide religious instruction.
52% : [citations omitted] The High Court also wrote, "Maine's 'nonsectarian' requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
50% : [citations omitted] "While the wording of the Montana and Maine provisions is different, their effect is the same: to 'disqualify some private schools' from funding 'solely because they are religious.'

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