Opinion | Jessica Levinson: U.S. Supreme Court's Montana decision blurs line between church and state. - NBCNewsTHINK
Next, three low-income parents sued, saying that they wanted to use the scholarship funds to send their children to religious schools and that now, because of the Revenue Department's decision, they were being denied a benefit given to others.
The parents of children wishing to use the then-defunct scholarship program to send their children to private religious schools sued again. This time, they argued that the Blaine Amendment in Montana's Constitution is itself unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, they successfully claimed that Montana's Constitution violates the Free Exercise Clause.
And now the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the parents, calling into question similar provisions in more than three dozen other state constitutions. States could now be strong-armed into providing the same public benefits to secular and religious schools.
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