"The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a proposed state-financed Catholic charter school, saying the first-of-its-kind religious public school violated the state and U.S. Constitution."
This is the right decision. The govt should not directly fund religious indoctrination.
I sure hope the Supreme Court does not get its christian nationalist hands on this case.
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Of course, just to have it said here, the other side of the coin is that discrimination against religious institutions is also problematic.
@CarolineMalaCorbin it absolutely is discrimination, whether for the best or not.
If you're sorting out religious from nonreligious institutions, that's discriminating between them.
Even if one would say the Establishment Clause requires that discrimination, it's discrimination nonetheless.
@volkris
I guess it comes down to how you understand the word "discrimination"
You are defining it as differential treatment,
I am thinking of it as differential treatment for no good reason.
@CarolineMalaCorbin Well then I would take the next step and say it comes down to how you understand good reason 🙂 different people will disagree about that, after all, depending on their values.
And that's why this gets tricky.
Discrimination in furtherance of the establishment clause is good or bad depending on values.
@volkris
Yes, but it is not discrimination to deny taxpayer funds to religious institutions to indoctrinate their religion. It is the Establishment Clause.
Religion gets special privileges under our Constitution, but it is also subject to special limits.
Or at least it used to be.