ADADTo be fair, the wall of separation between church and state never really existed. But the English became less so, even while maintaining state financial assistance for church schools to this day. In the United States, that high fence of separation between church and state existed from approximately the mid-1940s through the mid-1980s. By contrast, Montana’s constitution does not zero in on any particular “essentially religious” course of instruction at a religious school. Implementing or enforcing that funding mechanism would entangle the state with the operations of the religious schools, but it would seem doable.

Source: Washington Post June 30, 2020 16:30 UTC