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Locke v. Davey

ACLU Welcomes Supreme Court Decision Not to Force States to Fund Inherently Religious Education

February 25, 2004
The American Civil Liberties Union today welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court to let states decide for themselves whether to grant scholarship money to theology students, which the ACLU said undermines one of the core legal arguments in the President’s so-called "faith-based initiative." Read More »
 

Locke v. Davey (Public Funding of Religious Education)

This case asks whether Washington violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment when it followed a state law forbidding the use of public funds for theology degrees, as applied to an applicant studying to become a Protestant minister. Read More »