Brett Kavanaugh Thinks the Separation of Church and State Is Anti-Catholic Bigotry

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : These groups want charter schools to carry out the central mission of public education as an engine of civic democracy that gives all children the tools to flourish as people and citizens.
64% : His tunnel vision blocks out these competing interests, leaving him with the false impression of heinous anti-Catholic persecution.
58% : This case extends that line of precedent all the way to public education.
56% : Kavanaugh does not appear to care that non-Catholic Oklahomans would be subsidizing Catholic indoctrination if St. Isidore is approved, or that non-Catholic students could face discrimination or expulsion for failing to share the school's beliefs.
56% : This same rule is enshrined into the laws of the 46 states (plus D.C.) that allow charter schools.
55% : If anything, they appeared eager to accelerate them -- casting the long-standing nationwide ban on sectarian charter schools as an egregious form of anti-religious bigotry.
53% : Wednesday's case, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, was engineered by conservative activists seeking to expand state funding of religious education.
48% : It will also invite a flood of challenges to "curricular requirements" that states attempt to impose on charter schools.
45% : And it would further enfeeble secular public education, diverting billions of dollars away from inclusive public schools toward religious academies that openly discriminate against those outside their faith.
45% : Justice Samuel Alito raised similar gripes, then took the complaint of persecution to a new level, accusing Oklahoma of perpetuating a long and "unsavory" history of "anti-Catholic bigotry."
45% : As Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson each took pains to note, the federal statute that governs charter schools -- through which billions of dollars are disbursed each year -- requires that these institutions be "nonsectarian" in their "programs, admissions policies, employment practices, and all other operations."
43% : The Oklahoma Supreme Court sided with the attorney general last year, ruling that the state constitution prohibits taxpayer funding of St. Isidore.
42% : It would bury what remains of church-state separation, forcing every American to subsidize the indoctrination of children into faiths they may not share.
39% : But Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a Republican, objected; the state's constitution, he pointed out, forbids the expenditure of public money on any "sectarian institution" and requires that public schools be "free from sectarian control."
28% : Alito claimed, incorrectly, that the state constitution's limits on public funding of religion emerge out of a campaign against American Catholics.
28% : That is because charter schools are public schools, by every metric, and requiring the establishment of a Catholic charter school would blow up the legal foundation of the entire enterprise.

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