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A school tuition voucher program in Maine must be allowed to pay for religious schools, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, further chipping away at restrictions on the use of government money for religious schools.
The US Supreme Court is located in Washington, DC.
Maine's tuition program, which allows parents to use state funds to pay tuition for private schools if their children can't attend a public school locally, cannot legally block the funds from being used on religious schools according to a ruling by the justices.
The court ruled that the state requirement that a school be nonsectarian violates the freedom of religion in the constitution.
John Roberts wrote for the court that Maine's law promotes stricter separation of church and state than the Federal Constitution requires, and that having a neutral program in which religious organizations receive public benefits doesn't violate the law.
The court struck down other similar state laws and ruled that states can't discriminate against private schools based on their religious beliefs.
The court split along ideological lines in the case, with conservative-leaning Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito joining Roberts' opinion and ruling Maine's law should include religious schools.
Roberts said there was nothing neutral about Maine's program. If the private schools are not religious, the state pays tuition for certain students. Discrimination against religion is what happened.
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