'Victory for religious freedom': 7 reactions to Supreme Court ruling on Maine's tuition program

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

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A new ad, launched by the Center for Inquiry on Tuesday, March 2, 2011, is seen here at the Farragut West Metro station in Washington, D.C.
A new ad, launched by the Center for Inquiry on Tuesday, March 2, 2011, is seen here at the Farragut West Metro station in Washington, D.C. | (Photo: The Christian Post)

The Center for Inquiry, an atheist advocacy group that filed an amicus brief in support of Maine, contends the decision destroys the idea of church-state separation. 

CFI president and CEO Robyn Blumner claimed in a statement that the Supreme Court was "actively dismantling Thomas Jefferson's wall."

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"The Founders established the Wall of Separation between religion and government to prevent people being forced to subsidize faiths they did not believe in," Blumner said.

"Now, with this ruling, the power of the state may force Americans — about one third of whom subscribe to no religious faith — to foot the bill for children's religious education and indoctrination."

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