# ANDREA PICCIOTTI-BAYER: Colorado’s universal preschool revives vile anti-Catholic laws

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/andrea-picciotti-bayer-colorados-universal-preschool-revives-vile-anti-catholic-laws/
- Published: 2026-11-01T11:00:51+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T13:21:09+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andrea-picciotti-bayer-colorados-universal-preschool-revives-vile-anti-catholic-laws
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Colorado’s preschool funding rules exclude some Catholic schools.
- The Supreme Court will hear a challenge on 3 November.
- Eligible four-year-olds’ benefit is worth about $6,000 annually.

## Summary

Colorado’s universal preschool programme excludes Catholic schools whose teaching on marriage, sexuality and gender identity conflicts with the programme’s “equal opportunity” condition. The author argues that this leaves some families paying for faith-based preschool themselves while their taxes support places at other providers, and says the Supreme Court case could test whether states may impose such conditions on religious schools.

The court is due to hear *St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy* on 3 November. Colorado’s programme offers eligible four-year-olds a benefit worth about $6,000 a year, but participating schools must accept the condition; families described in the article say this has left them with substantial costs or limited choices. The author compares the rule to historic state “Blaine” provisions aimed at Catholic schools and cites Supreme Court rulings in *Trinity Lutheran* (2017), *Espinoza* (2020) and *Carson* (2022), which addressed religious schools’ access to public benefits.

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