Two families from Maine ask the U.S. Supreme Court to expand taxpayer support for religious schools by requiring a state tuition assistance program to include sectarian as well as nonsectarian institutions.
Jonathan Ernst/Reutersby requiring a state tuition assistance program to include sectarian as well as nonsectarian institutions.
Maine argues that its tuition-aid program is meant to subsidize a"rough equivalent of a public education" and its criteria are religiously neutral -- discriminating not on the status or affiliation of the school but what it teaches."Maine has determined as a matter of public policy that public education be neutral," said Maine deputy attorney general Christopher Taub."[The families] are not being discriminated against.
The Supreme Court has said that states cannot use tax dollars to explicitly promote religion, nor can they target a religion or discriminate based solely on religious status. The gray area in between the two rules is where this case will be decided. "Why isn't it treating people neutrally to tell them you're all equal citizens without respect to your religion, and so, too, all the schools that are accredited are equal without respect to their religion, whether you are secular, Catholic, Jewish, what have you, you're all going to be treated equally?" he asked.
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