The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to transform education funding by allowing overtly religious schools to receive taxpayer money. This deliberation arises from a case brought by two Catholic dioceses in Oklahoma aiming to establish a publicly funded charter school despite state and federal mandates against religious indoctrination in charter schools. Conservative justices expressed support for including religious schools in the funding programs, arguing that excluding them is discriminatory. The outcome could redefine the intersection of public funding and religious education in America.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh strongly telegraphed his views, at one point declaring: "All the religious school is saying is, 'Don't exclude us on account of our religion.' And when you have a program that's open to all comers except religion, that seems like rank discrimination against religion."
Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas asked similar questions, also contending that to leave a religious school out of the charter school program amounts to discrimination against religious adherents and their constitutional right to the free exercise of religion.
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