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Supreme Court Opens Floodgates To Taxpayer-Funded Religious Schools

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : As Justice Breyer wrote in dissent: The First Amendment begins by forbidding the government from "mak[ing] [any] law respecting an establishment of religion."
56% : The next challenge will attack a state for only allowing public funding to go to public schools arguing that the Free Exercise Clause requires that states give funding for parents to send students to religious schools instead.
54% : Before today, the Court already hamstrung the Establishment Clause by ruling that government programs that funnel funds to religious entities don't necessarily violate the First Amendment, if citizens simply had the choice of sending those funds to religious institutions.
54% : Citizens in districts with public schools can then argue their freedom to practice religion is hindered by not getting a check for religious instruction instead.
48% : In order to comply with the First Amendment, the state limited these public funds to use at non-sectarian private schools.
46% : To square these circumstances, the state provides money to parents to send their kids to private schools.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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