Potential Slippery Slope from the Supreme Court: The Case for funding a playground

While a lot of the attention to the end of the Supreme Court's term focused on the partial restoration of the Trump Travel Ban, a potentially more significant case involving the Trinity Lutheran Child Learning Center in Missouri in Missouri could create a slippery slope and long term impact on the public funding of religious organizations.

The Supreme Court, in a 7 to 2 ruling, said that the state of Missouri was wrong to deny potential access to state funds to the Not for Profit Learning Center so they could redo their playground. While virtually no one sees any harm in the Learning Center seeking aid for a playground, the slippery slope is using public funds for projects sponsored by a religious organization. It will be telling what a court will do when a religious not for profit attempts to push the envelope and seek public funds for textbooks with a religious orientation or restoration/renovation expenses to part of a chapel. This is indeed a slippery slope the courts should avoid falling down in.

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/26/534084013/supreme-court-rules-religious-school-can-use-taxpayer-funds-for-playground