If the Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, there is every reason to think that the court will become more accommodating to conservative religious interests and concerns. But it won’t necessarily become as accommodating as those on the religious right would like.
Their bill of particulars against an institution they have long held in suspicion goes all the way back to the decisions that mark the origin of today’s culture war — the banning of teacher-led prayer and Bible reading in the public schools in 1962 and 1963. In 1968, the court prohibited state law forbidding the teaching of evolution.