Government support of religion, many people believe, violates freedom of conscience, politicizes and trivializes important values, and violates people’s rights. If the same is true of government support of education, doesn’t consistency require people to reject it, too?

James R. Otteson is the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics, University of Notre Dame.
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