The wall separating church and state is one of the foundational principles of the United States. Sonia Sotomayor, one of three liberal justices on the Supreme Court, is accusing her conservative majority colleagues of tearing it down.
Sonia Sotomayor, one of three liberal justices on the Supreme Court, is accusing her conservative majority colleagues of tearing it down.
"The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious," Roberts said."That is discrimination against religion." "Today, the Court leads us to a place where separation of church and state becomes a constitutional violation.""With growing concern for where this Court will lead us next, I respectfully dissent," she said.
"But this Supreme Court has rendered a decision completely contrary to the founding principle of separation of church and state."Lia Epperson, a law professor at American University who joined an amicus brief in the case in support of Maine, said the ruling was significant."This is the first time the court has explicitly required taxpayers to support something that is a specific religious activity -- that is religious instruction," Epperson said.
"And yet it nevertheless has moved inexorably in the direction of not only inviting religion more into public life but really mandating religion more into public life." "If there was any question before there's quite clearly a majority in favor of religion now," Schwinn said."We do have an increasingly religious and conservative court," she said."You will see that reflected in the decisions.
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