Word: sectarian
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...Supreme Court restored tax-supported tuition assistance for more than 700 Cleveland students. Cleveland, for the past few years, has permitted these subsidies to be used for both sectarian and secular private schools. Opponents of the 5-4 court ruling claim that even indirect government support of parochial institutions violates the First Amendment...
...school voucher system does not discriminate between religions as blatantly as Ontario's or Quebec's school funding does. Public scholastic funding is not distributed to any specific religious group. Vouchers may be used for the sectarian schools of any religion, or conversely, for private schools of no religious affiliation at all. However, complying with international guidelines for justice has never been our national priority, and particularly in this instance, the primacy of domestic introspection is justified...
...should not be censoring ourselves with recently developed international codes, but holding ourselves to our time-tested habit of keeping religious authority at a distant arm's length. Permitting vouchers to be used at sectarian schools--irrespective of their religious affiliation--is a departure from that habit...