Not a good week for Separation of Church and State

The Supreme court has been busy demolishing the Separation of Church and State.

In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District the conservative majority ruled 6-3 that both the Free Exercise Clause and the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment require a public school district to permit a football coach to publicly pray on the field following a game.

Does the publicly funded coach have a special obligation to be religiously neutral? Can a random person from the stands come onto the field to offer a prayer from any religion?

In Carson v. Makin, they decided the state of Maine needed to fund religious schools when secular private schools are funded. Does this apply to any religions.?

And of course the Dobbs v. Jackson Whole Women’s Health Org decision overturns Roe v Wade stripping away the federal constitutional right to choose an abortion is not religious in itself but clears the way for states which wish to impose an extreme religious viewpoint that disregards common sense. Is any limitation on states’ power here?

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