"Colorado violated the U.S. Constitution when it blocked taxpayer-funded financial aid to students at religious schools that the state calls 'pervasively sectarian,' a federal appellate court in Denver ruled Wednesday," The Denver Post reports. "The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stood with Colorado Christian University in Lakewood. The school had appealed a ruling last year by federal Judge Marcia Krieger, who had sided with the state. The appeals court said the ban is unconstitutional on two fronts. 'The program expressly discriminates among religions without constitutional justification,' the ruling states, 'and its criteria for doing so involve unconstitutionally intrusive scrutiny of religious belief and practice.'"

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