{"id":113237,"date":"2022-06-21T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113237"},"modified":"2022-06-21T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:14:57","slug":"ct-supreme-court-rules-against-maine-policy-denying-christian-school-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113237","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Supreme Court Rules Against Maine Policy Denying Christian School Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Maine policy covering tuition for private schools but not religious schools violates the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Maine offers the tuition assistance in rural districts that do not have public schools. The challenge involved two private Christian schools, Bangor Christian Schools and Temple Academy, which didn\u2019t meet the state\u2019s \u201cnonsectarian\u201d requirement for families to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>The court said such a requirement infringes on free exercise protections and that there was \u201cnothing neutral\u201d about the program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2021\/december\/maine-school-supreme-court-carson-v-makin-case-christian-ed.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Maine policy covering tuition for private schools but not religious schools violates the First Amendment.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L5pzqZZfb1\">https:\/\/t.co\/L5pzqZZfb1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1539272184941658113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Maine policy covering tuition for private schools but not religious schools violates the First Amendment. Maine offers the tuition assistance in rural districts that do not have public schools. The challenge involved two<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113237\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,114,108,619,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113240,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113237\/revisions\/113240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}