Oklahoma Supreme Court shuts down ‘unconstitutional’ taxpayer-funded Catholic school
Last year, a state school board approved the creation of a taxpayer-supported online Catholic school — triggering a high-profile legal battle to decide whether public funds can be used to create religious schools.
On Tuesday, the state’s highest court said the contract violates the state constitution as well as the First Amendment of the Constitution.
“The framers’ intent is clear,” the court’s majority wrote. “The State is prohibited from using public money for the ‘use, benefit or support of a sect or system of religion.’”
The school is an “instrument of the Catholic church, operated by the Catholic church, and will further the evangelizing mission of the Catholic church in its educational programs,” justices wrote.
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Last year, a state school board approved the creation of a taxpayer-supported online Catholic school — triggering a high-profile legal battle to decide whether public funds can be used to create religious schools.
On Tuesday, the state’s highest court said the contract violates the state constitution as well as the First Amendment of the Constitution.
“The framers’ intent is clear,” the court’s majority wrote. “The State is prohibited from using public money for the ‘use, benefit or support of a sect or system of religion.’”
The school is an “instrument of the Catholic church, operated by the Catholic church, and will further the evangelizing mission of the Catholic church in its educational programs,” justices wrote.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...68728.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
