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As a retired superintendent of colleges in Salem, Connecticut, I adopted our district coverage to not pay tuition to parochial colleges.
My namesake Thomas Jefferson wrote a few years in the past a couple of “wall of separation” between church and state and the Supreme Courtroom affirmed this tenet in 1833, 1879, 1947, 1963, 1985 and different instances.
Nevertheless, extra not too long ago colleges turned required to pay for transportation, books and different providers in non secular colleges.
The brand new Supreme Courtroom is inclined to alter historical past and ready to carry precedent (stare decisis) much less rigidly than has been the courtroom custom.
Church officers in the meantime are more and more engaged in political exercise. “Render underneath Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s,” has develop into blurred from historic Bible teachings.
The courtroom has simply tossed quite a lot of balls into the air as a harbinger of issues to come back. On this new world out of the blue upon us we have to begin imposing earnings and property taxes on the church if they’ll take funds from our public colleges.
Oh, one different factor: Church buildings want to start out following state and federal legal guidelines, i.e. particular schooling, Title IX equal entry to sports activities for ladies, compliance and monetary audit opinions, skilled administration and trainer certification, well being and diet necessities, hearth and constructing codes, and all the remainder.
Jefferson Prestridge
Dover-Foxcroft
