Wednesday's News & Ideas - 6/22/2022
- SCOTUS on religious schools
- Burkini ban
- Belief in God is dropping
- Pelosi communion ban
- Gas station owner lowers prices
- Beware the luxury beach resort
Supreme Court: Religious schools must get Maine tuition aid
Associated Press: The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer money.
HuffPost: Justice Sonia Sotomayor voices ‘growing concern’ over conservative Supreme Court
No place for burkinis in Grenoble public pools, rules top French court
Reuters: Full-body swimwear including the burkini should not be worn in public pools in the city of Grenoble, France’s top administrative court ruled on Tuesday, upholding an earlier order by a lower court.
Poll: Americans’ belief in God is dropping
Religion News Service: In the latest Gallup Poll, belief in God dipped to 81%, down 6 percentage points from 2017, and the lowest since Gallup first asked the question in 1944.
Banning Nancy Pelosi from communion may have backfired
Religion & Politics: In the weeks since Cordileone made his announcement — complete with a major media push and a marketing campaign to enlist allies — fewer than two dozen of the more than 270 active Catholic bishops in the United States have signaled support for his edict.
‘We don’t go by money’: Gas station owner lowers prices to help customers
NBC News: “If you have something, you have to share it with other people,” said Jaswiendre Singh of Phoenix, whose Sikh religious values factored into his decision.
The Spark
Beware the luxury beach resort
These ostensible paradises have a dark side,* writes Lauren Groff in The Atlantic.
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