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This 15 page paper uses a case submitted by a student as a springboard for discussion. The case involves a petitioner who wants to receive state funding for several religion courses excluded from her scholarship. The court rejects the petition and a judicial opinion is provided as a draft memo . A dissenting opinion is included as well. Several actual cases are noted in the context of the opinion. No bibliography.
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a case involving religious freedom and the states rights to limit the funding of religious education. On one hand, there is the argument that the state should be allowed to
fund curriculums that do not include religious education. In public schools for example, it is well known that religion classes may not be conducted and paid for by the state
on school property. The ideology which is federal in nature is that no taxpayer should have to fund religious teachings as a part of the separation of church and state
dictum. However, there is a fine line between blatant discrimination by the state in a refusal to pay for particular classes due to the fact that an individual has chosen
to embark on a career that involves religion, and the discounting of religion altogether. In other words, state universities do have theology departments and arguably such departments are inadvertently funded
by tax dollars. In Natasha Maisey v. State of Ward, the petitioner has not chosen the ministry or even a major in theology for any reason. Maiseys goal is to
be a reporter who specializes in religion. Thus, some of her coursework should involve religion. The theology classes will aid her in her endeavor to specialize in this sort of
journalism. At the same time, there is no requirement for a journalist--even one specializing in religion--to take courses under the theology departments offerings. Journalists specialize in a variety of areas
and many students who graduate with journalism degrees do not even know what they will be doing. It is arguable that after Maisey graduates college, she will decide not to
use her degree at all. Hence, an argument that she needs such courses to become a particular sort of journalist can easily be challenged. It is clearly in her
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