When it comes to religious freedom, in contrast with abortion, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is not owning up to the transformation it is effecting
who had been suspended for praying after games at the 50-yard line. How are these decisions changing America’s law of religious liberty?are their setting—state schools—and how the court saw the constitutional infringement: as discrimination against religious believers. Parents deserve the option to send their children to religious schools on the state’s dime if funds flow to non-religious schools,said.
This new view of religious liberty marks a fundamental departure from the position of the court just a few decades ago. Public funding for religious schools was constitutionally barred until 2002, when the court ruled that Ohio could provide vouchers for parents to send their children to their choice of private school, whether secular or sectarian, without violating the establishment clause.
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