U.S. Court Rejects ‘Pervasively Sectarian’ Test

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Colorado may not distinguish between sectarian and “pervasively sectarian” colleges to deny state funds to students in the latter category. Such distinctions, the court ruled, amount to illegal state preferences for some religious groups over others.

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