The Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision last Thursday to effectively end a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma is “very disappointing” and not the “outcome we were looking for,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt told Newsmax Wednesday.

“We believe in religious freedoms. We believe in putting parents in charge of their kids’ education. And I remind people all the time that you don’t have to send your kids to a religious charter school. It’s just another option that if you want your kids to have a faith-based education, that the government should not stand in the way and discriminate against that because it’s a public benefit,” Stitt said during an appearance on “National Report.”

“So, in other words, you can have a charter school for music or STEM or all these different subjects or different genres, but oh, if you’re faith-based, we’re going to discriminate against you and not allow you to set up a charter school. So that’s the premise of this. It was a tie, 4-4. So we know that we feel very optimistic that if [Justice] Amy Coney Barrett, they find another case to look at, it’s actually 5-4 to protect religious freedoms,” he added.

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