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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court took another major step toward obliterating the wall separating church and state by holding that the state of Maine is constitutionally required to subsidize religious education when it pays for private secular education. The implications of this decision in mandating government financial support for religion…

In an extremely important church-and-state decision, the Supreme Court has held that if the state of Maine decides to pay for a child’s private education in lieu of a public one, it must allow its tuition money to be used at religious schools. The 6-3 decision, Carson v. Makin, profoundly…

The six-to-three ruling is the latest in a series of Supreme Court decisions in recent years expanding religious rights.

States may not "exclude some members of the community from an otherwise generally available public benefit because of their religious exercise,” says SCOTUS.

Liberal justice delivers warning after ruling that state of Maine cannot exclude religious schools from tuition programme

The court said that Maine is excluding "otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise."

except for the training of the clergy, holds the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court has ruled that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a state tuition assistance program.