Americans United, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Maine in late October filed a motion to intervene in a case in Maine regarding the use of taxpayer funds to pay tuition at schools that indoctrinate children in religion.

“It is a fundamental violation of religious freedom to force Maine taxpayers to support education in religious beliefs which they do not hold,” said Alex J. Luchenitser, Americans United’s associate legal director. “And taxpayers should never be compelled to support discrimination, which some private religious schools practice.”

A group of clergy members in Rumford, Maine, sought to have a display of banned books at the local public library removed because they didn’t like some of the titles it highlighted.