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    The justices heard 90 minutes of courtroom argument Wednesday involving a program in Maine that makes tuition money available to families living in areas without a public high school, which they can use to pay for attendance at public or private schools in other communities. But the money cannot be used to send children to sectarian schools.
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    Maine originally allowed the money to be used for tuition at religious high schools but changed its policy after the state attorney general concluded the program violated the Constitution's requirement of religious neutrality. Justice Gorsuch said that was "perhaps a mistaken view of the establishment clause" in the First Amendment.
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    "The problem is that our case law suggests that discriminating against all religions, as compared to secular or comparable secular, is just as discriminatory as to exclude the Catholic and the Jewish and include the Protestant," said Justice Kavanaugh. Justice Breyer said it's appropriate for governments to avoid having to referee religious disputes.
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