The Supreme Court has ruled that states must give religious schools the same access to public funding that other private schools receive. Already there’s fierce debate over the decision’s long-term impact.
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Tuesday, June 30, 2020 in Washington. The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen.
Critics assailed the decision as another in a series of setbacks for a principle with long roots in the U.S. legal system. Others tracking the Montana case stopped short of predicting a major expansion of state funding for religious education. “Government funding to religious schools requires taxpayers to support religious institutions and beliefs that may violate their own, something the First Amendment was intended to avoid,” Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said in a statement.
Another attorney who co-authored a brief supporting the plaintiffs, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty vice president and senior counsel Eric Baxter, predicted the ruling will not result in significant new funds flowing to religious schools.
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