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...Supreme Court just unleveled the playing field, and religion is stuck in the divot. In a ruling against first-year Harvard Law School student Joshua D. Davey, the Court upheld a Washington state statute, which effectively rescinded Davey??s Promise Scholarship after he chose to pursue an undergraduate degree in theology at his parochial university. Had Davey chosen to pursue any other degree at his religiously-affiliated university—or theological studies at a secular university—his scholarship would have been funded. Such a standard discriminates against religion when it ought to be neutral...
Though the principle of separation of church and state is a valuable one—embodied in the establishment clause of the United States Constitution—funding Davey??s study of theology would not have been a government endorsement of religion. Rather, government’s exclusion of scholarship funds for theology majors actively and unnecessarily burdens religion. If the state had kept Davey??s scholarship, it would have been treating religion as equal to any other pursuit. There would be an inherent pluralism in such a system. Non-religious and religious studies would receive...
Opponents of the Court’s ruling cite plaintiff Joshua D. Davey??s decision to attend Harvard Law School instead of becoming a minister as evidence that not all participants in his parochial college’s theology program become ministers. Thus, they argue, state scholarships are not necessarily being applied to the training of ministers. What their arguments fail to take into account is the systematically biased approach religious colleges take to teaching theology. States should only support the study of theology when it acknowledges religious choice and pluralism, or else they risk de facto state...
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for the majority, ruled Wednesday that the Promise Scholarship Program and the state of Washington’s constitution contain no “animus towards religion” and did not violate Davey??s rights...
Washington state rescinded Davey??s Promise Scholarship when he decided to major in theology as a student at Northwest College in Kirkland, Wash. Davey, now attending the Law School, sued the state on the grounds that this decision infringed upon his First Amendment right to worship freely...