Last week, I shared the news that the Maine Legislature's Education Committee voted to recommend the rejection of bill that would authorize religious school funding using taxpayer dollars--something Maine has refused to do for over 30 years.
Today, the Maine House agreed, voting 84-59 against the proposal. The Senate will take up the bill next, and we believe that the result will be the same.
Last year, the legislature also rejected multiple proposals to use public money for religious schools. The ACLU of Maine opposed all of those bills as well, because we believe that entangling government with religion is good for neither. Hopefully, this is the last of these proposals we'll see for a while. If it isn't, you can be certain that we will do whatever it takes to stop them.
