Analyzing Supreme Court Decisions on Religious Schools

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Analyzing Supreme Court Decisions on Religious Schools

Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation ( More Entries )

Publisher's note: The author of this post is Mitch Kokai for the John Locke Foundation.

Dan McLaughlin reports for National Review Online on the U.S. Supreme Court's consistent approach to cases involving religious schools.

The Supreme Court's decisions in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue and Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru offered a one-two punch of victories for religious schools under the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Espinoza, a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, protected the right of parents to use taxpayer-funded school choice for religious schools on the same basis as non-religious schools. Guadalupe, a 7-2 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, protected the right of religious schools to control the hiring and firing of their religious teachers without interference from laws that govern teachers at non-religious schools.
Some critics see a contradiction. As one Above the Law columnist argued, "no sane reading of our religious liberty clauses supports the notion that government is both commanded to stay out of the affairs of religious schools while at the same time existing under the obligation to fund them." In fact, what the two cases do is preserve a space for the free exercise of religion that actually takes religion seriously. ... [T]he Court's view is both philosophically consistent and firmly grounded in the history of the First Amendment.
The liberal-progressive view sounds, at first glance, sensible enough: In the public, government-funded sector, everything religious must be subordinated to avoid an establishment of religion or the large-scale obstruction of civil law; on your own time and your own dime, you can practice your faith. But there are ... problems with this framework.
The first problem is religious: It is not enough simply to tell religious believers that they can participate in the government-funded sector in a non-religious way, and then just practice their faith on their own time. That's just not how faith works.

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