This red state attorney general has declared war on the First Amendment | Blaze Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Justices labeled charter schools "state actors" and argued that any religious affiliation disqualifies a school from public recognition.
56% : Oklahoma's Charter Schools Act permits any "private college or university, private person, or private organization" to apply for state funding to open a charter school.
54% : After years of confusion -- conflating the ban on state-sponsored religion with an invented mandate to scrub faith from public life -- the Court, through a series of rulings on religious schools and public funding, had restored sanity.
51% : So how, after such ironclad precedent, do we find a Republican state attorney general and a court in a state Trump carried in every county ruling that religious schools can't even apply for public funding?
49% : In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue (2020), a 5-4 majority held that state constitutions barring aid to religious institutions over secular ones violates the Free Exercise Clause.
39% : We thought the Supreme Court had finally purged anti-religious discrimination from Establishment Clause jurisprudence.
32% : He warned that attempts to judge how a religious school carries out its mission invite unconstitutional state entanglement.

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