Urge Your Representative to Oppose Any Religious School Voucher Amendments The religious right wants billions of dollars of federal education funds to line the pockets of private religious schools. Rep. Messer (R-IN-06) will be introducing a floor amendment to the Student Success Act (HR 5) that would expand public school portability to private schools. In other words, federally funded vouchers that could send millions of dollars to private religious schools.



Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote "The 'establishment of religion' clause of the First Amendment means at least this… No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions.” Vouchers also infringe on one of the most dearly held principles of religious freedom, that the government should not compel any citizen to support a religion with which he or she disagrees, or even a religion with which he or she does agree.



Voucher programs violate these central tenets of our Constitution: they use taxpayer money to fund religious education. Tell Congress this is unacceptable.



Tell your Representative that public funds should never support religious schools.