Second class citizens?(Scan)(Brief Article)

In February, the Supreme Court decreed that states can withhold taxpayer-funded scholarships from theology students. The 7-2 decision in Locke v. Davey concerned college student Joshua Davey, who was awarded a Washington state Promise Scholarship, but then lost it once the state discovered his double major in business and theology.

The government does not "require students to choose between their religious beliefs and receiving a government benefit," argued the Court. It has "merely chosen not to fund a distinct category of instruction." But Justice Antonin Scalia's dissenting opinion argued that "this case is about discrimination against a religious minority."

Patrick Gillen, a Thomas More Law Center attorney representing a Michigan student majoring in theology in a similar case yet to be decided by the courts, argues that state denials of scholarships undermine ...