Supreme Court case could tear down wall between religion & schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Anti-LGBTQ+ religious conservatives have long wanted a Supreme Court victory that would redirect billions of taxpayer funds from public schools to religious homeschools and charter schools.
51% : At one point, conservative Justice Samuel Alito said that current law permits charter schools to teach that being LGBTQ+ is a "perfectly legitimate lifestyle," but doesn't allow governments to fund religious viewpoints.
48% : However, during questioning, Chief Justice John Roberts asked how this case differs from the 2021 case of Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, in which the court ruled that Catholic group should be allowed to participate in a city foster care program despite its religious-based refusal to work with same-sex couples, NBC News reported.
46% : The school's lawyers say that the institution deserves access to Oklahoma's taxpayer funds for charter schools because depriving them of access would violate the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause, which requires the government to allow people to freely practice their religion.
43% : She questioned the degree to which the Constitution requires the government to accommodate religious viewpoints of every type and worried whether a ruling might enable mainstream religions to run charter schools at the exclusion of smaller spiritual faiths.
42% : Oklahoma's Supreme Court already ruled against the school, saying that public funding would violate the Constitution's Establishment Clause.
42% : Currently, the 47 states that allow public charter schools prohibit religious entities from participating.
41% : If those groups are considered government entities, he argued, they wouldn't be allowed to exercise their religious rights.
32% : Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch tried to downplay this concern, saying that states could require religious charter schools to provide a "secular" education whose objectives and content are overseen by state educational officials.
28% : " Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh then questioned whether a ruling against St. Isidore would affect religious groups with government contracts that provide services like foster care, nursing homes, or homeless shelters.
28% : At another point, Kavanaugh suggested that rules requiring charter schools to be non-religious are a form of "rank discrimination against religion."

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