Declining appeal, Supreme Court lets stand public-school ‘released time’ for religion classes
CWN - November 20, 2012
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s appeal of Moss v. Spartanburg County School District Seven, a unanimous federal court decision that upheld the constitutionality of “released time” arrangements in which students at a South Carolina public school are permitted to take academic religion courses at private schools for course credit.
“This is a big win for public school students and for religious education,” said an attorney with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “The Supreme Court’s rejection of this case is a blow against anti-religious legal theories that would treat religion with suspicion.”
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