Dear Editor: Your editorial, “Trump’s Choice” (March 11), underscores at least a symbolic victory as a result of last November’s presidential election. If the President’s opponent had won, do you think religious schools would have received the encouraging comments from the President and the Secretary of Education and the promise of some assistance for our religious schools? There are a number of avenues legislators can take – vouchers, educational tax credits, participation in programs that improve the physical plant of the school.

All Catholics should follow the case of Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Pauley. The United States Supreme Court has a chance to overturn the bigoted, religiously discriminatory state Blaine Amendments (its parent failed in the U.S. Congress in the late 19th century).

Courts and legislators have used this relic of an unsavory past to deny religious school children assistance that should be theirs on a non-discriminatory basis except for the fact that some state constitutions bar assistance to sectarian schools.

The Blaine Amendment had a target – Catholic schools. The Supreme Court can rule these amendments unconstitutional in light of a number of decisions over the past decade.

With Trump appointees, there might be a chance. His opponent last Fall and our current Democratic Party is mired in the bigotry of the past. Let’s hope!

GERALD DE MAIO

East Flatbush