Religious freedom for believers and nonbelievers is under attack. From the Supreme Court to Christian nationalists in the streets, separating church and state is being interpreted as discriminating against Christians. Not only did the Supreme Court rule that a football coach can pray on the field with players after a game, it also just ruled that the State of Maine is constitutionally required to allow tuition funds to go to private religious schools.
In rural areas of Maine, parents can choose what school to use tuition assistance on, and the Court ruled that overtly religious schools must be eligible for the program. Eligible to receive taxpayer money. With this ruling the religious right will be coming for charter schools next.
Justice Sotomayor said the ruling “leads us to a place where separation of church and state becomes a constitutional violation.” “The Court,” she said, “continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state the Framers sought to build.”
We need to stand up and take action to defend the separation of religion and government. If the Supreme Court will not protect us, we need to work with our allies in Congress to create laws and national policies that will. That is what we do because there are solutions. In Maine, for example, the legislature passed new regulations that prevent any private school in the tuition program from discriminating against teachers or students based on sexual orientation. The schools involved in the Supreme Court case quickly opted out.
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