If a Catholic hating racist wrote the opinion then why did the Court rule in favor of the Catholics.
>>>If a Catholic hating racist wrote the opinion then why did the Court rule in favor of the Catholics.<<<
That statement is deceptive. Black joined the majority so he could interject anti-religious rhetoric into the opinion, according to Mark Levin in his book, "Men in Black". Levin wrote:
"While [Black's opinion] affirmed fair treatment of religion in the public sphere, other portions of Black's opinion established the anti-religious precedent that has done so much damage to religious freedom. He wrote, "No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion." He added, "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach" . . . "According to his biographer, Roger K. Newman, although Black wrote the majority opinion upholding the use of public funds to transport children to Catholic schools, he did so for the purpose of undercutting the true meaning of the religion clauses ... [Black] joined the majority in order to thwart them from the inside-and he succeeded. Today, Everson is remembered more for the easily understood "wall" metaphor than for the fact that state funds were used to reimburse the parents of parochial students."
Levin added, "[Black] had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, when the Klan was deeply resentful of the growing influence of Catholicism in the United States. According to Hugo Black, Jr., his father shared the Klan's dislike of the Catholic Church: "The Ku Klux Klan and Daddy, so far as I could tell, had one thing in common. He suspected the Catholic Church. He used to read all of Paul Blanshard's books exposing the power abuse in the Catholic Church. He thought the Pope and the bishops had too much power and property. He resented the fact that rental property owned by the Church was not taxed; he felt they got most of their revenue from the poor and did not return enough of it.""
While this doesn't prove Black was a Catholic-hating bigot, he clearly wrote the opinion in a way that would undermine our religious tradition. He gave the left-wing kook organizations, such as the ACLU and the modern-day "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" and the so-called "People for the American Way", plenty of anti-Christian ammunition.