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SCOTUS Takes Up Catholic Preschool Funding Case

Is Colorado's preschool program protecting kids from discrimination or discriminating against Catholic schools?

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SCOTUS Takes Up Catholic Preschool Funding Case

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Above: Backpacks with school supplies for different grades at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Denver, Colorado, on Aug. 3, 2021. Image credit: Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty Images

The Spin

Left narrative

Demanding public money while turning away kids with gay parents is not religious freedom, it's taxpayer-funded discrimination. The Archdiocese of Denver has no problem enrolling children of cohabitating parents but singles out LGBTQ families as uniquely threatening, which exposes the selective moral outrage at play. No church gets to pocket state preschool dollars and still slam the door on children.

Trail Gazette The Denver Post

Right narrative

Colorado's so-called universal preschool program is universal in name only, cutting out Catholic schools while letting secular programs set their own enrollment standards freely. Two Catholic preschools have already shut down, slashing access for low-income Black and Latino families, all because the state refuses to accommodate religious beliefs it dislikes. The Supreme Court has rebuked Colorado for this kind of religious hostility before, and St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy gives the Court another clear shot to end it.

Carrie Severino on X First Things