Everson V. Court In Sante Fe (2000)

In this decision, the Court’s granted a weight inconsistent with previous cases to the potential for coercion of students created by what the Court concluded was the essentially involuntary nature of the event. A comparable component is not present in the facts of this case. The voluntary nature of group’s meeting could lead the State to rely upon the decision of the Court in Sante Fe (2000), as the event at issue in that case, a high school football game, would be like the petitioner’s requested access, voluntary, after hours, and using school facilities. The Court would asserts that it forbids all religious activity conducted with what could be perceived as State endorsement as a violation of the Establishment Clause.
The petitioner could rely upon the decisions in Lamb’s Chapel (1993) and Good News Club (2001), which struck down similar policies against religious groups operating in school facilities in non-school hours on the basis of …show more content…
In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), though the Court sustained the use of public funds for the transportation of parochial school students, it also decreed that no tax regardless of its size could be leveled to support religious activities. Indeed, the construction, heating, cooling, cleanliness, and electricity of public school facilities are all accomplished with taxpayer funds. Despite the facts, it remains necessary for the State to prove that the use of the facilities by a religious organization would serve to further religion and that the challenged policy is, or at least is more, neutral towards religion then a policy without the prohibitions against religious services and