The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed divided on allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school, but if the justices follow the precedents, “they will rule in the favor of the Catholic school,” Michael Toth, a resident fellow at the Foundation for Research and Equal Opportunity, told Newsmax.

“There’s been three cases during the current Roberts courts, where the Supreme Court has basically addressed the same question. And here’s the question: If you’re a religious organization, do you get the same rights as nonreligious organizations when we’re talking about doing business with the government, providing essential social services?” Toth said on Wednesday’s “Finnerty.”

“All across the country we’ve got religious faith-based foster care programs, we’ve got faith-based hospitals, we’ve got faith-based organizations that are doing a lot of work to provide for the most disadvantaged communities. Question here is, Can they do the same thing in education?” he said.

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