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Head on over to stamps.com. click the mic at the top of the page, enter promo code Shapiro to get started. Well, we are all still awaiting the Supreme Court's final ruling on overruling Roe versus Wade, but there was another really important decision that came down from the Supreme Court yesterday. The case was called Carson v. Macon, and it was decided six to three with Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, writing the opinion. He was joined by Thomas Alito Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Of course, the liberals on the court, that would be Justice Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, and then Sotomayor filed a separate dissenting opinion, which was even more extreme because she is the most extreme justice on the court by a long shot. Basically, what happened in this case, according to the Supreme Court, is that Maine had enacted a program of tuition assistance for parents who live in school districts that don't operate a secondary school of their own. Under that program, parents designate the secondary school they want their child to attend, either public or private, and then the school district transmits payments to that school to help defray the cost of tuition. Most private schools are eligible to receive the payments so long as they are, quote unquote, non-sectarian. So then a bunch of religious school sued, and they said this violates the free exercise clause of the First Amendment, the idea being this is discrimination against religion, that if you say that the only schools that are allowed to receive funding are non-religious

schools, then you are effectively violating freedom of religion by discriminating against schools

that are religious. This is a major issue because right now across the country, we have seen

voucher programs arise in my home state of Florida.

They're effectively voucher programs for a huge variety of students.

And the question is whether a state is allowed to deny those vouchers to religious schools.

Now, on the face of it, the answer would be obviously not.

It's very silly to say that you should be allowed to use your voucher for some sort of secular school. The idea being that secular school is sort of the default, but not for a religious school of your choosing. Again, this is not the government directly funding religious schools. This is the government funding you and you deciding whether to put that money into a religious school. By the way, there would be nothing wrong with the government directly funding religious schools so long as they're also funding not religious schools.

If they're funding Jewish schools and Catholic schools, that is obviously not religious discrimination.

But what we will see is that the left believes, and this is really, I think, the takeaway from this case.

If the left had its way, all religion would be private and all secularism would be public.

All that the right wants, and this is pretty clear here,

is that religion and non-religion should be on equal footing when it comes to public funding,

at least for private institutions. Nobody is saying they're going to teach Bible class in a

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