From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Ronn Blitzer   
   Published June 21, 2022   
      
   The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that a Maine tuition assistance   
   program violated the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause for   
   excluding religious schools from eligibility.   
      
   The program provides tuition assistance for students without a local   
   public school to attend private institutions – as long as the funding   
   is not used for religious or "sectarian" teaching.    
      
   "Maine’s ‘nonsectarian’ requirement for its otherwise generally   
   available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause   
   of the First Amendment," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the   
   court's opinion in the case of Carson v. Maykin. "Regardless of how the   
   benefit and restriction are described, the program operates to identify   
   and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious   
   exercise."   
      
   Roberts stated that with Maine providing the benefit of tuition   
   assistance, they cannot condition those benefits in a way that   
   "effectively penalizes the free exercise of religion."   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-maine-tuiti   
   n-program-violates-first-amendment-excluding-religious-schools   
      
   Wonder why the liberal justices can't understand this?   
      
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