If a fire breaks out at a church, the government fire department wouldn't refuse to put it out on the grounds that to do so would constitute a subsidy to the church that would violate the separation of church and state. Concerned that government moneys will thus go to educate children in specific religious doctrines, the American Civil Liberties Union vows to appeal. The fact that the money passes through parents' hands on its way from the public treasury to the religious school doesn't make it any less of a constitutional violation. Anything is possible.
Families pay school taxes.
Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal . The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127. All rights reserved.