Supreme Court Paves Way for Americans to Drop Anti-American and Anti-Christian Schooling
July 1, 2020
While repeatedly flipping the Constitution and right voters the bird this spring, the Roberts Supreme Court put the finger down for a 5-4 decision barring states from discriminating against the religious upbringing of children. It marks a significant potential advance for school choice, as nearly half the country’s parents wish they could send their children to private schools but only about one in ten do, due largely to their lack of control over public funds expended in their children’s names.
When Montana’s legislature passed a law in 2015 allowing tiny tax credits for up to $150 in donations to private-school scholarships, the state tax bureau refused to credit any donations to religious schools. It argued, and the state supreme court agreed, that treating religious organizations the same as secular organizations conflicted with a state constitution provision known as a Blaine Amendment……
It would also be key in reversing the nation’s loss of its historic saturation in Christianity, since common sense and research indicate that “the currently best-supported argument for why religion has declined around the world” is government-run education, as researcher Lyman Stone wrote in a recent review of such research. “There is ample research supporting the idea that the specific curriculum and values in a school influence religiosity, ” he says.
This is important because, as the founders widely believed, self-government cannot exist if citizens are not religious. Virtue is the core underpinning to republican government. If people do not govern their lives well privately, the resulting injustice and anarchy will generate increasingly authoritarian government.
Therefore, secular education is anti-American, in that it actively undermines the precondition for the American way of life. The Supreme Court’s ruling makes it possible to increase enrollment in pro-America schools, but it is up to the states and ultimately the people to take advantage of this opportunity.
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