Supreme Court refuses to hear church requests for historic preservation funds
Source: USA Today
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY Published 9:51 a.m. ET March 4, 2019
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether churches and other religious institutions should be able to receive public taxpayer funds for historic preservation.
The action stopped short of extending the justices' 2017 ruling that churches can be eligible for purely secular grant programs such as playground renovations.
New Jersey's Supreme Court ruled unanimously last year that religious institutions were ineligible for government funds under the New Jersey Constitution. The state justices reached that conclusion despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Missouri playground case the year before.
The Supreme Court's action apparently was unanimous, but three conservative justices registered their concern that the lower court decision "is in serious tension with this Courts religious equality precedents."
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True Blue American
(17,981 posts)They do not want to be tarred by the Trump gang. They know they will be there long after Trump is gone and are thinking about their own reputation.
They know full well Separation Of Church And State is the Law.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)equality precedents tend to ignore separation, at least when the religion in dispute is Christianity.
ToxMarz
(2,162 posts)they can be considered for their fair share of access to taxpayer dollars
melm00se
(4,984 posts)frankly total works of art and it is in the best interests of maintaining them as they add to the cultural and artistic tone of society.
There, also, are churches that are the artistic equivalent of a strip plaza.
Zorro
(15,722 posts)Then they would have a legitimate reason to ask for taxpayer dollars.