Supreme Court seems open to a religious charter school in Oklahoma - The Boston Globe

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57% : It would also, he added, blur a line established in earlier Supreme Court cases distinguishing between government money provided to parents to spend on private schools, including religious ones, and government support provided directly to religious schools.
55% : "Participation in charter schools is mediated through two layers of private choice, both of the applicants who create the schools and the parents who choose to send their children to them," he said.
53% : The main question in the case is whether the First Amendment permits -- or even requires -- states to sponsor and finance religious charter schools, which are public schools with substantial autonomy.
52% : Since 2012, when the court unanimously ruled that religious groups were often exempt from employment discrimination laws, the pro-religion side has won all but one of the 16 signed decisions in argued cases that concerned the First Amendment's religion clauses.
52% : " Garre said that a decision in favor of St. Isidore "would result in the astounding rule that states not only may but must fund and create public religious schools, an astounding reversal from this court's time-honored precedents.
49% : A ruling in favor of the school could affect laws in 46 other states that authorize charter schools, said Gregory G. Garre, a lawyer for Drummond.
44% : But Justice Elena Kagan said that St. Isidore and charter schools like it have many hallmarks of "regular public schools.
42% : The state's Supreme Court ruled against the school, with the majority saying it would "create a slippery slope" that could lead to "the destruction of Oklahomans' freedom to practice religion without fear of governmental intervention."

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