US Supreme Court seemed prepared Wednesday to rule that states violate the US Constitution if they prevent religious schools from receiving some state benefits. - PeteWilliamsNBC
Richard Komer of the Institute for Justice, representing the mothers, told the court Wednesday that the question"is whether the U.S. Constitution allows the wholesale exclusion of religious schools from a state scholarship program. It does not."
"What if the state said you can use scholarship funds for private schools, but not for Jewish or Protestant schools? Wouldn't that be discrimination?" he asked. Komer said another decision by the Supreme Court three years ago is heavily in the mothers' favor. In that ruling, the court said that Missouri was wrong to exclude a Lutheran church from a state program intended to help nonprofits cover their gravel playgrounds with a safer rubber surface.
Espinoza, one of the mothers in the Montana case, said she believes so strongly in the Christian school her daughters attend that she works two jobs to afford the private school tuition.
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