Extreme Right Wing SCOTUS Tears Down 1st Amendment

The extremist conservatives on the US Supreme Court have struck down parts of the 1st Amendment that dealt with the separation of church and state by allowing state funds to go to religious schools. The issue was brought to the Court from the state of Maine where some school-age children didn't have access to public schools, so the state provided vouchers for private schools. The vouchers did NOT cover ANY schools that offered religious education, but the SCOTUS has now struck that down, further damaging the wall between church and state. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses the ruling.

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In a six to three vote released on Tuesday, the United states' extremist Supreme court further eroded our first amendment protection, specifically the separation of church and state. This new ruling came from a case out of the state of Maine. And what Maine had done is you've got a lot of rural areas where residents do not have access to public schools in some places. So the state had a program where they would give you grants so that you could pay to send your child to a private school. But these grants, because it was, you know, taxpayer money, government money, you couldn't use 'em to go to any school that had religious education, basically a secular school can't do it, but you've got plenty of options with other private schools in these areas. You can go to these instead. Everybody has access at this point.

Well, got challenged in court, made it all the way to the Supreme court and chief justice. John Roberts said in his ruling quote Maine's program promotes stricter separation of church and state than the federal constitution requires. The state pays tuition for certain students in private schools. So long as the schools are not religious, that is discrimination against religion. He says, sounds like chief justice. John Roberts needs to actually read what the frigging constitution says. It's not discrimination against religion. It is literally following the letter of the law of the constitution. Oh, it's, it's, it's much stricter than what the constitution says. The constitution just says you can't do it at all. It says no. So I'm not sure how the state also saying no can be stricter than the constitution. This was an exceptionally flawed ruling from John Roberts. Again, that further erodes the separation of church and state here in the United States.

Now, again, I don't know that it's time to, you know, fully sound the alarm bells on this particular issue. You know, we, it remains to be seen obviously whether or not this is going to allow public funds to be able to U a, a fund secular schooling for people in areas where public high schools or other schools are available in Maine. Maybe that's the exception, but we'll have to wait and see. And that of course is always one of the scariest things, because now that we have this court precedent, even though precedent clearly doesn't matter to this Supreme court at all, but it will matter to other conservative judges across the country. They could potentially use this ruling as justification to allow for private school vouchers, you know, using public funds to go to religious schools.

So that is of course the inherent danger of all of this that we, as taxpayers will eventually begin to start funding religious indoctrination of students here in the United States. That is what this Supreme court just cracked open the door for. I'm not even gonna say they threw the door wide open, but they opened that door a little bit. So we'll have to wait and see what some of these other conservative justices across the country have to say about it. When it inevitably comes to them in their states,