US Supreme Court divided over church-state separation

Sonia Sotomayor, one of three liberal justices on the Supreme Court, is accusing her conservative majority colleagues of tearing it down.

"The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious," Roberts said."That is discrimination against religion." "Today, the Court leads us to a place where separation of church and state becomes a constitutional violation.""With growing concern for where this Court will lead us next, I respectfully dissent," she said.

"But this Supreme Court has rendered a decision completely contrary to the founding principle of separation of church and state."Lia Epperson, a law professor at American University who joined an amicus brief in the case in support of Maine, said the ruling was significant."This is the first time the court has explicitly required taxpayers to support something that is a specific religious activity -- that is religious instruction," Epperson said.

"And yet it nevertheless has moved inexorably in the direction of not only inviting religion more into public life but really mandating religion more into public life." "If there was any question before there's quite clearly a majority in favor of religion now," Schwinn said."We do have an increasingly religious and conservative court," she said."You will see that reflected in the decisions.

Accusing? I think you meant 'pointing out'.

Sotomayor is 100% right!! What happens when a Supreme Court Justice SUBVERTS THE CONSTITUTION

Justice Sotomayor is not wrong!

HNTurtledove Yeah, this will end will. NOT.

It's not mentioned in the constitution but the idea always was to keep the State out of the churches not the other way around.

Sad when you make it to the Supreme Court yet don’t know what’s in the Constitution.

The point the founders were making with church and state, is that there should not be a “state” or “Government” church. Praying in schools, government meetings etc.., so long as it’s not a government sponsored church, is not prohibited. We need God more than ever now!

Actually, it is not a founding principle or it would be in the constitution, Declaration of Independence, or some other law.

Funny that a Supreme Court justice doesn’t know what it actually means.

There is no wall, constitutionally. And, nothing about this decision erects or tears down that imaginary wall. It simply protects religious people from discrimination.

Show us in the Constitution, Declaration or Articles of Confederation where the wall separating church and state is mentioned. I do not see in the founding documents.

we can all see this left side is going to destroy our America

She's not wrong. The current Talibangelical 'Christian' faction that tRump installed on the SCOTUS has an agenda to force their version of religious beliefs on America disguised as 'law'. It's unphuckingbelievable, but here we are. 🤷🏼‍♀️

They want a Authoritarian Theocracy.

Sotomayor becoming a activist judge

Catholic Church hijacked. 💀

And so she should

Walls don't work!

She is absolutely correct!

& she is right.

The wall is to prevent State sponsored discrimination against religion. Sotomayor wants to expand that discrimination.

They Supreme Court Judges .. minus three… are bought and paid for… they can NOT be trusted!!!

Whoever wrote Yahoos headline is Publicly Educated. Separation of Church and State: Congress Shall Make NO LAW respecting an establishment of Religion. NO LAW explicitly means any prohibitions, restrictions or limitations. Secular people don’t get a Freedom FROM religion clause.

There is not Constitutional wall that separates church from state. There is only a prohibition on the establishment of a state church.

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