Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma

[martybegan]

Don’t know, sounds better to keep gubment out of education.

He called the 4-4 vote “a resounding victory for religious liberty” that also will ensure that “Oklahoma taxpayers will not be forced to fund radical Islamic schools

So it’s good to keep the government from funding Islamic crap.

Now remove radical LGBT instruction from schools.

 

[Oddball]

The renowned moral coward ACB takes a powder, and Roberts sides with the other three leftist hack women.

 

[whitehall]

Unsolved but doomed anyway? How does that work?

 

[initforme]

This would turn i to a mess as every religious sect would be applying to open their own school.

 

[Oddball]

This would turn i to a mess as every religious sect would be applying to open their own school.

I can see that angle to it....Were any of the Marxist women who voted against it arguing that?

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Even the exact title of the same thread posted an hour ago.

Got-DAMMIT are you shitlibs lazy!

Apparently you are..do link to me any earlier thread with the same title..search function says you're drunk.

 

[struth]

It's weird how Dembots are outraged that trump wants to cut funding to the Privat College founded by Puritans in Cambridge Mass., but have an issue with the folks in OK funding a on line school

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Ahhh..so we STILL can't mix church and state?
This is an unsatisfactory ruling from both sides POV.

Liberals hate that it only applies to Oklahoma and does not establish precedent.
Conservatives hate that it allowed the adverse lower court ruling to stand...and that, once again, Roberts stabbed them in the back.

Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma

The Supreme Court has effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4.

apnews.com

The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4.

The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation’s first religious charter school. But it leaves the issue unresolved nationally.
The one-sentence notice from the court provides an unsatisfying end to one of the term’s most closely watched cases.

The Catholic Church in Oklahoma had wanted taxpayers to fund the online charter school “faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Opponents warned that allowing it would blur the separation between church and state, sap money from public schools and possibly upend the rules governing charter schools in almost every state.

The court, following its custom, did not provide a breakdown of the votes. But during arguments last month, four conservative justices seemed likely to side with the school, while the three liberals seemed just as firmly on the other side.

That left Chief Justice John Roberts appearing to hold the key vote, and suggests he went with the liberals to make the outcome 4-4.

As Long As It Teaches General Knowledge Instead of Being a Biblical Seminary Only

We, the people, never gave SCROTUS the authority to interpret the Constitution for us, the people. Anyone who knows Colonial History can figure out that the only thing the patriots were concerned about was having an established denomination, which has nothing to do with Catholics doing their public duty of educating our fellow Americans and getting public funds to do that, instead of, as it unfortunately has been interpreted as Constitutional, having to pay for both public education and for their own schools.