SCOTUS Blocks Taxpayer-Funded Religious Charter School

Thursday, May 22, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a major case involving religious rights in American education.

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SCOTUS deadlocks: The Supreme Court won't allow the nation's first religious public charter school. A conservative justice likely sided with the court's liberals.

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-- Politico (@politico.com) May 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM

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Good.

A win for Separation of Church and State.

Next stop, removal of the tax exemption of ministries that preach politics from the pulpit.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 12:50 PM | Reply

Wonderful.

#2 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-05-22 05:51 PM | Reply

@#2

imo (nothing more) ...

Yeah, but a tie in SCOTUS neither overturns nor upholds the lower Courts ruling.

It merely lets that ruling stand.

With the distinction that the ruling does not apply nationally, and may be (likely to be?) challenged in the future.

So, this topic does not yet seem to be resolved nationally.

That's how I understand it.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 08:07 PM | Reply

"So, this topic does not yet seem to be resolved nationally."

And it not likely to be "resolved" soon.

This is just a flesh wound on Christian Nationalism because republicans have bent the knee to the Mad King and the Mad King gives them whatever they desire. They will just try again and again until the democratic dam breaks.

Christian Nationalism relies heavily on a false narrative of America as a "Christian nation," founded by Christians in order to make that become the new reality. And the Lyin King just loves false narratives because the people who believe in myths and a mythical white only Christian history are his core base.

"The church is supposed to direct the government, the government is not supposed to direct the church," she said at a church two days before her primary election (and victory) in late June. "I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk."

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-23 01:22 PM | Reply

Re 4.

The quote was from Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-23 01:23 PM | Reply

The U$A Christian Taliban can pay for their own child's indoctrination. No way should the rest of us get stuck paying for their fairy tales brainwashing children.

#6 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-05-23 07:48 PM | Reply

No way should the rest of us get stuck paying for their fairy tales brainwashing children.

#6 | POSTED BY WILDMAN62

Unfortunately we WILL be paying for the brainwashing of our children.

One way or the other.

Actually .. Seems to me we are all paying a pretty steep price right now.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-24 07:42 AM | Reply