Your Taxes, Their Religion: The SCOTUS Case to Watch

(A big thank you to Lindsay Sparks who contributed to this post by reminding me that churches do not pay taxes)

If you read my SubStack on April 26 (AG Bondi’s Bogus Crusade Against Anti-Christian Bias), you already know some of my thoughts about using public school funds for private schools.

Today, it gets worse! SCOTUS - minus the recused Amy Coney Barrett - heard a case from Oklahoma that is seeking to create and fund a Catholic school with our tax dollars. In essence, it would establish a state religion.

Think of it! If Oklahoma wins this case, states can directly establish and finance religious schools. We would pay with our taxes, which would leave public schools poorer but, more infuriating and incomprehensible is that THE CHURCHES CONTRIBUTE NOTHING! Yet, their political activism around abortion, prayer in school, book banning, curriculum, gender issues, etc. has increasingly influenced every aspect of our state and federal governments, and our laws.

Win or lose, it is past time to tax churches!

Defying the Constitution’s Establishment Clause has long been a Christian Nationalist goal. With rampant false claims of anti-Christian bias and current implementation of their Project 2025 agenda, their progress in creating a national religion is accelerating. They made it half way to their goal with a previous SCOTUS ruling that allows parents to use tax-funded vouchers for religious school tuition. To me, that alone was a gross violation of the Establishment Clause. Now they could gain much more. If they win this new challenge, will they only fund religious schools that align with their Christian Nationalist ideology? (Discussed in my April 26 SubStack) We can guess yes. We have seen the Christian Nationalist agenda enacted by the Trump Administration in their first 100 days, and we know its influence on their hand-picked SCOTUS majority.

If Oklahoma wins this case, we may as well just strike the Establishment Clause from the First Amendment!