Conservative Supreme Court justices suggested approval for the nation’s first taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school in a landmark case that could dramatically expand religious freedom in American education.
St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, proposed by two Oklahoma Catholic dioceses, would offer K-12 education with an explicitly religious curriculum as a state-funded charter school.
Hundreds of families have already signed up while the school awaits the resolution of legal challenges, according to Reuters.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh pushed back against the state’s exclusion of religion during arguments, stating: “… You can’t treat religious people and religious institutions and religious speech as second class in the United States,” adding that excluding religious schools “seems like rank discrimination.”
Attorney James Campbell, a lawyer for the state’s…
