Imagine that a church in your neighborhood caught fire. Could anyone seriously argue that it would violate the Establishment Clause to allow city firefighters to fight the blaze? Would it, in fact, violate the Free Exercise and Equal Protection Clauses not to offer such assistance simply because the burning building in question was a church? That is the powerful analogy employed by a Missouri church—which luckily was not engulfed in flames—in a case to be heard by the Supreme Court in the coming months.
The case before the curt concerns tires, not fires. Shredded tires, in fact. Missouri provided grants to nonprofit organizations that installed on playgrounds under their control rubber protective flooring made from recycled tires. The goal of the initiative was to reduce the quantity of old tires in the state’s landfills, as well as to protect the safety of children in the state.
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