too many Supreme Court decisions to be taken into account.
We can't say how far we may go here with regard
to the authority of the State to authorize and approve
child benefit programs, release time programs,
the extent of State aid to school busing, scholarship aid,
text book allowances for parochial and private schools,
assistance for educationally deprived children who are in
private schools, nor can we decide finally what contribu-
tions can be made to hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages
and other church run institutions.
The Supreme Court of the United States is still
struggling with these issues, as is the Congress, in the
pending education bill. I take it the Congress very glee-
fully has passed the buck to the Supreme Court in authoriz-
ing a taxpayer's suit under the education bill.
The one thing, however, that stands out in the
Maryland Court was that the Horace Mann case attempted to
give us the meaning of the establishment clause as applied
to aid to education. It said there was great doubt about
it. They said that no absolute guidelines may be derived
from past decisions.