The state of Maine isn't a place we normally associate with religious bigotry. Yet something unpleasant lies beneath its seemingly reasonable law allowing parents to direct public funding such that they can send their children to a school of their choice. For more than a century, Maine has had a program that allows parents in remote areas of the state to send their children to the public or private schools of their choice. But in 1981, it decided to restrict parents' options by declaring that no money should go to "sectarian" schools. Meaning, of course, Christian ones.