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It mentions “sectarian schools,” “sectarian education,” and “sectarian classes.” It writes of states that have “large and varied sectarian populations.” It uses the term “sectarian needs” in conjunction with the phrase “the religious nature of our people.”
The Supreme Court’s Discriminatory Use of the Term “Sectarian” Why a Functional Definition of Religion Is Necessary If Justice is to Be Achieved in Public Education; Secular Bias and Environmental Policy — Giving Christians a Place at the Table “Cosmos,” Cosmologies, and the Public Schools; Public Education as “Brutal Censorship”
Cornell claims to be a “nonsectarian” university, but in some respects it is a highly sectarian institution, for it unjustifiably privileges particular points of view and discriminates against others.
From its founding, Cornell University was explicitly non-sectarian and committed to equal educational opportunities for all “persons,” men and women. The Cornell University Charter specifically stated that “persons of every religious denomination or of no religious denomination, shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments.”
The Supreme Court’s Discriminatory Use of the Term “Sectarian” Why a Functional Definition of Religion Is Necessary If Justice is to Be Achieved in Public Education; Secular Bias and Environmental Policy — Giving Christians a Place at the Table “Cosmos,” Cosmologies, and the Public Schools; Public Education as “Brutal Censorship”
The Court instead stressed, among other factors, that the tax deduction was “available for educational expenses incurred by all parents, including those whose children attend public schools and those whose children attend non-sectarian private schools or sectarian private schools.” 22.
Not only does the Court call religious schools and colleges “sectarian”: it also describes the motivating beliefs and ideas that inform the basic world view of these institutions as “sectarian.” It even pins the label on schoolchildren, employees, teachers, and administrators of religious organizations.
