Posted on 05/01/2025 4:43:15 AM PDT by daniel1212
In just the last month, the Supreme Court has heard three important religion cases, culminating in yesterday’s argument over a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma. Judging from the justices’ questioning, the side pressing religious-freedom claims seemed likely to prevail in all three.
That would extend a remarkable winning streak for religion at the Supreme Court.
Since 2012, the pro-religion side has won all but one of 16 First Amendment cases about the government’s relationship with faith. (The exception: The court rejected a challenge to the first Trump administration’s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries.)
The court has been especially active in cases involving religious education. It said if the government was helping private schools, it couldn’t exclude religious ones. It exempted religious schools from anti-discrimination laws. In one pending case, the justices seemed poised to let parents with religious objections withdraw their children during discussions of gay and transgender themes. Yesterday they seemed likely to let a Catholic organization start a charter school in Oklahoma — which would make it the first religious school to get state charter funds.
A 2021 study of religion rulings since Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court in 2005 found that the Roberts court ruled in favor of religious people and groups over 83 percent of the time, compared with about 50 percent of the time for other courts since 1953....
Vouchers allow you to use taxpayer money — funds the government would have spent on a public school — to pay for your kid’s private school (or home-school supplies). More than half of states have such programs, and more than one million students use them, double the number in 2019.
States are looking for other ways to expand religion in public schools,... to put Bibles in its classrooms...the Ten Commandments
(Excerpt) Read more at messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com ...
How many generations since God was removed from public schools? At least three. And we see today the effect its had on children who then grow up into spiritually ignorant adults.
After overcoming adversity and affliction, the ultimate test is affluence. Overall, the children of the "Greatest Generation" who won the physical war against wannabe conquerors, were not raised up diligently in the ways of the Lord, or rebelled against it, and engaged in a war against God. For about 70 years, very generation America has raised has in, been the most biblically ignorant and morally confused one.
That’s the sad truth.
Typical NYT reporting. The ban was not due to Islam, and Trump did not ban people from all muslim countries. The ban was on a few nations that were “state sponsors of terrorism.” The left framed it as a “muslim ban.”
“How many generations since God was removed from public schools? At least three. And we see today the effect its had on children who then grow up into spiritually ignorant adults.”
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If this passes the legal tests, it will also trail blaze public funding of madrassas, Scientology schools, etc. If you think only Christians will benefit, you’re likely mistaken.
Don’t forget the satanists. Society has so decayed it would take a miracle of God to fix this mess. That would require national repentance, humility and turning away from sin. Personally I don’t see that happening. We are headed for a deadly crash yet most don’t realize it or care.
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