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To: NIKK
Triinity Lutheran 6-3 decision ...

This was the case of whether Missouri's exclusion of a church preschool from its program to provide grants for playground resurfacing to non-profits violates the Constitution.
Roberts, Justices Kennedy, Alito, and Kagan join the opinion in full, Thomas and Gorsuch join except as to the footnote.

The decision of the Eighth Circuit in favor of the state is reversed. Roberts writes that, although the state's policy "is nothing so dramatic as the denial of political office," "the exclusion of Trinity Lutheran from a public benefit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution all the same, and cannot stand."

Good news on that front.

138 posted on 06/26/2017 7:13:03 AM PDT by Cboldt
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TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH OF COLUMBIA, INC. v. COMER No. 15-577
Argued April 19, 2017--Decided June 26, 2017
139 posted on 06/26/2017 7:15:57 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

YEA! Being a Lutheran I am especially happy.


150 posted on 06/26/2017 8:18:44 AM PDT by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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