The Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority appeared willing to broaden the scope of public funding for religious education.
The Supreme Court is asked to rule on whether the nonsectarian provision of Maine's tuition program violates the Constitution.
"It is the beliefs of the two religions that determines whether or not their schools are going to get the funds or not. And we have said that that is the most basic violation of the First Amendment religion clauses, for the government to draw distinctions between religions based on their doctrine," Alito said.
"What we are trying to achieve are schools that are religiously neutral," the lawyer for Maine responded. "What we want is religious neutrality."2020 ruling Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue In Carson, Maine argues that a crucial distinction is whether the schools are providing a religiously based education, rather than simply being a religious school that otherwise does not instill sectarian teachings.
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