Plaintiffs Focus on Maine’s Anti-Catholic History in Lawsuit Over State Voucher Program

Lawsuit says Maine intentionally amended the state’s human rights act prior to an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling about the state’s voucher program to make it impossible for religious schools to qualify for the program.

National Gallery of Art
Burning of Old South Church, Bath, Maine, c. 1854, by John Hilling, which depicts an anti-Catholic riot attacking a church in the coastal city. National Gallery of Art

Maine’s campaign to circumvent a 2022 Supreme Court ruling barring the state’s tuition voucher program from excluding religious schools will be challenged in court by plaintiffs who are bringing the state’s history of anti-Catholicism into the fight.

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