America’s Supreme Court requires Maine to include religious schools in a tuition programme
The justices are eroding the separation between church and state
In 1785 james madison warned against taxing Virginians to pay salaries for teachers of Christianity. Requiring citizens to hand over just “three pence” to fund religious instruction, he admonished, is a dangerous “experiment on our liberties”. On June 21st, 237 years later, the Supreme Court has come out against the chief author of the Bill of Rights—and Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a “wall of separation between church and state”—in a dispute over a tuition-assistance programme in Maine.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “A victory for God”
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