41.   But the ADL, citing concerns over church and state separation, has long opposed any public aid to religious schools.

42.   But the modern Orthodox position has eroded, hastened by the growth of yeshivas, or Orthodox religious schools, many built and run by the right wing.

43.   But the state constitution stops short of an outright ban on using taxpayer money to aid religious schools.

44.   But there is some resistance, even within the government, to taking strong measures against the religious schools.

45.   But Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell countered that the First Amendment prohibits states from giving tuition assistance to religious schools.

46.   By contrast, a federal appeals court ruled in May that Maine families are not entitled to public subsidies for religious school tuition.

47.   Catholic educators and their supporters were elated last month when the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that government-funded vouchers for private religious schools were constitutional.

48.   Carter says he favors the separation of church and state and the ban on school prayer, but supports vouchers for religious schools.

49.   Churches and synagogues were not allowed to operate religious schools of any kind.

50.   Churches, religious schools, volunteer ambulance companies and other operators of charitable games also complain that the state never carried out a promise to provide Keno for them.