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State Funding of Devotional Studies: A Failed Jurisprudence that Has Lost Its Moorings

By Alliance Alert

The Court?s attitude toward the public funding of devotional studies can best be described as ambivalent. Not long ago, devotional studies were viewed as one of the few kinds of study that the state clearly could not fund. Then, the Court did an about-face, implying that public funding of devotional studies does not violate constitutional guarantees, because that kind of study cannot be distinguished for constitutional purposes from other kinds of permissibly funded areas of study.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).