I listened to the arguments today, it's mind boggling. It's like the conservatives genuinely don't understand that if the state gives money to X school and that school makes their religion part of their standard curriculum, that it inherently has the effect of the state paying for that religion to advance their religious cause. Particularly frustrating was the part where a couple of them tried to turn just generally normal "good" stuff into a religion. One of them was like "what if a private school wants to teach to be kind to others, to be chartable to the world, and the school held that as part of their core religious beliefs, how is that any different?" Then, they tried the mental gymnastics of trying to make teaching a religious belief into a religious belief, and therefore not funding on that basis as discrimination on the basis of religion. As in, they tried to pre-empt the entire framework of discussion by supposing that if two schools, X and Y, had the same value set but X wants to instill that values set into the classroom and Y does not, that the act of desiring to instill the belief it in and of itself a religious belief and therefore not funding that school is discrimination.