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Justice Sotomayor Laments Crumbling ‘Separation Between Church and State’ in Religious Schools Dissent
LifeSite News ^ | 6/23/22 | Matt Lamb

Posted on 06/29/2022 5:48:31 PM PDT by marshmallow

‘The founders believed in religious freedom, not religious suppression and persecution,’ conservative filmmaker Trevor Loudon responded.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is concerned that the “separation between church and state” is falling apart.

She shared those concerns in her dissent Tuesday in Carson v. Makin, a Supreme Court (SCOTUS) case about a Maine school choice program that prohibited parents from using vouchers to send kids to religious schools.

SCOTUS ruled that the Maine program violated the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution.

“This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build,” Justice Sotomayor wrote to open her dissent.

She argued SCOTUS “revolutionized Free Exercise doctrine” in 2017 when it ruled in Trinity Lutheran v. Pauley that a Missouri program that excluded churches from a grant program to get recycled tires for playground materials violated the Constitution.

The Carson and Trinity Lutheran decisions have confirmed Sotomayor’s fear about SCOTUS and religious freedom, she wrote.

“As a result, in just a few years, the Court has upended constitutional doctrine,” she wrote. SCOTUS has “shift[ed] from a rule that permits States to decline to fund religious organizations to one that requires States in many circumstances to subsidize religious indoctrination with taxpayer dollars.”

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1 posted on 06/29/2022 5:48:31 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Sotomayor is a Liar!


2 posted on 06/29/2022 5:52:15 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Indeed. Anyone with historical knowledge would know that no such was intended by the framers as she sees it.


3 posted on 06/29/2022 5:55:51 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: marshmallow

So. Wait. Ok. Laws against murder are religious suppression? What?

What idiot Republican approved her nomination?


4 posted on 06/29/2022 5:57:15 PM PDT by stanne
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To: marshmallow

Lefty idiot.


5 posted on 06/29/2022 6:01:33 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill.)
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To: marshmallow

The Wide Latina belches her dissent, again.


6 posted on 06/29/2022 6:07:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marshmallow

What does she say about churches being torched?


7 posted on 06/29/2022 6:09:45 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: marshmallow
"SCOTUS has “shift[ed] from a rule that permits States to decline to fund religious organizations to one that requires States in many circumstances to subsidize religious indoctrination with taxpayer dollars.”

Yuh funny. As opposed to treating an organization differently, just because it's religious?

Some religious folks consider anti-religious chatter like yours to be religious indoctrination. Because you talk like a Marxist, and Marxism is entirely faith-based.

Do we have free speech--a First Amendment right--if we permit our government to curtail our speech for being religious?

And does anyone expect us believe that government employees' opinions and actions are not often religiously anti-religious in nature?

8 posted on 06/29/2022 6:10:36 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
What does she say about churches being torched?

What does she say about a triple-beef-and-cheese-burrito being overdone?

9 posted on 06/29/2022 6:13:59 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: stanne

Just wait until the rocket doctor is sworn in.


10 posted on 06/29/2022 6:16:18 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: SamuraiScot

to subsidize religious indoctrination with taxpayer dollars.”
= = =

And do those taxpayers send their kids to school?

So maybe they get to put their tax toward their kid’s school.


11 posted on 06/29/2022 6:18:32 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: marshmallow; SoConPubbie; Texas_Jarhead; Huskrrrr
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,

First of all, there is clearly no separation, but instead a one-way screen. Isn’t that kind of obvious from reading the text? So, I should be able to impact the government whenever my religious beliefs are at stake.

12 posted on 06/29/2022 6:19:04 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Fightin Whitey
What does she say about a triple-beef-and-cheese-burrito being overdone?

"That's okay. I'll eat it anyway. Mmm... Do you have another?"

13 posted on 06/29/2022 6:23:28 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SoConPubbie

She’s not smart enough to lie, she is stupid enough to believe what she is saying.


14 posted on 06/29/2022 6:32:17 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility.)
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To: Retain Mike

Jefferson needs a good slap for coming up with that phrase.


15 posted on 06/29/2022 6:32:44 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: marshmallow

The original meaning of that phrase has been twisted into meaning enforcement of state atheism that bears no resemblance to the founders intent.


16 posted on 06/29/2022 6:33:09 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Are you sure it was a belch? I’m thinking a lower level of exit for her blathering.


17 posted on 06/29/2022 6:34:30 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Sorry, but I disagree.

She subscribes to Marxist thought as shown by her rulings since she has been on the bench with the Supreme Court.

She is simply an evil person who puts her own selfishness above fidelity to the Constitution, honor, and morality.


18 posted on 06/29/2022 6:38:46 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: marshmallow

“Congress shall make no law....” What about this does the Wide Latina not understand?


19 posted on 06/29/2022 6:39:28 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: marshmallow

Definitely the dumbest member of SCOTUS. A wise Latina? I think not!


20 posted on 06/29/2022 6:55:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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