The Supreme Court may rule it’s ‘discriminatory’ for states not to fund anti-LGBTQ schools

Justices have signaled that soon, your tax dollars will have to be spent educating future generations to hate you.

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Thanks to Donald Trump, the Supreme Court has taken a hard turn to the right. At least five of the justices are ready to overturn a woman’s right to choose, and two of the justices have already said that they would like to overturn marriage equality.

Now, in what is yet another salvo into the culture wars, the Court looks like its about to strike down laws forbidding states from funding religious schools. Such a ruling would be a disastrous erosion of the separation of church and state and would giving taxpayer money to schools with an explicitly anti-LGBTQ agenda.

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The case at hand, Carson v. Makin, involves a Maine law which allows the state to pay nonsectarian private schools to educate students in rural areas where there are no public high schools. The state won’t pay private religious schools to perform the same task, however.

In arguments before the Court this week, all six of the conservative justices signaled that they think the Maine law should be struck down as unfair to religious schools. (Not surprisingly, five of those justices attended private religious schools.)

The case before the court revolves around…

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