Posted on 04/21/2026 8:34:25 AM PDT by Morgana
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to weigh in on whether Colorado can exclude Catholic schools from its universal pre-K program over their rejection of students who have same-sex parents.
The Catholic preschool in Littleton, Colorado, filed a lawsuit against Colorado arguing that its exclusion from the preschool program is religious discrimination and violates the First Amendment, Politico reported. Specifically, the school says it is being discriminated against because the state will not provide an exemption from its rules and would require the school to admit everyone, including students who identify as LGBTQ+ and students who have LGBTQ+ parents.
Colorado has argued that their program includes faith-based preschools but mandates the schools comply with the state’s anti-discrimination laws, which includes discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, according to the report.
Both a federal district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit sided with Colorado. The Trump administration is backing the Catholic preschools in the legal battle and called the lower court rulings “deeply problematic.”
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First amendment sez wot?
Montgomery co was forced to exempt religious families over another Supreme Court ruling
The State cannot make church laws/rules anymore than the church can make state laws.
They will NOT be excluded.


I’m not sure there are too many folks on this website who would be comfortable with a state-funded pre-K program with a sharia law curriculum.
100% ... the whole idea of government-run "public" education is poisonous to a free (as in liberty) society.
School takes the state money. School complies with the state requirements for taking the state money. Don’t like it...change the state requirements through the legislative process.
” State cannot make church laws/rules anymore than the church can make state laws. They will NOT be excluded.”
I always flip like this around.
Would I want Islamic schools teaching Sharia excluded from taxpayer funded schools?
Yes, yes, I would.
So, to be consistent, I’d want this excluded.
Doing so was always going to create a conflict between government enforcement of this "civil right" against 1st Amendment protections for the free exercise of traditional religion.
It's not the Catholic daycare or Colorado really on trial here, it's SCOTUS itself trying to address the stupid conflict it created by legislating from the bench.
How about taxpayer funds for schools that teach faggotry, transgenderism, racial bigotry, abortion, and atheism?
Because that's what we have, right here and now, in every government school in America.
Is this a Blair amendment case?
Colorado where they think the 1st amendment protects the state from religion not religion from the state.
As Voddie Baucham said..”If you send your kids to Caesar to be educated don’t be shocked when they come back as Romans.”
Did you skip Step 1? : State takes parents money..
I agree with you. All that needs to go.
“That” will go if and only if government is entirely separated from education.
Probably.
Or education is so limited in curriculum that there is little ability to put in garbage.
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