Minnesota's Department of Education agreed to an injunction after Christian parents and schools sued, which the Becket Fund says could be a step toward striking down an 'anti-religious law'
Center for Security Policy senior fellow Dalia al-Aqidi discusses a Minnesota bill allowing undocumented immigrants to be eligible for tuition-free college education.agreed to halt enforcement of an anti-religious school law as part of a federal court injunction, which religious liberty advocates say is a win for Christian education.
against the Minnesota Department of Education."As this effort to walk back demonstrates, the state didn’t do its homework before it passed this unconstitutional law. The next step is for the court to strike down this ban for good." amended the eligibility requirements for schools who are part of a state-funded program offering college courses free of charge to high school students.
"We are glad that Minnesota has agreed not to punish our children and many students like them for wanting to learn at schools that reflect their values," parents and plaintiffs Mark and Melinda Loe said."They should be able to pursue the same great opportunities as all other students in the state without politicians in St. Paul getting in the way. We hope the court will eventually strike this law down for good and protect all religious students and the schools they want to attend.
"I've been litigating for 14 years, I've never seen a government defendant agree to a preliminary injunction," Thomson told Fox News Digital."That said, I think the law is pretty egregious." The Supreme Court has held, most recently in Carson v. Makin in 2022, that the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause forbids excluding participants of state programs offered to private institutions on the basis of religious practice
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