This article reports the 7-2 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding a Washington state scholarship program that denies aid to theology majors. Disappointing proponents of tuition aid for students in religious schools, the court held that Washington state was well within its rights to exclude students' training for the ministry from its Promise Scholarship Program, which subsidizes college costs for high-achieving students of modest means. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who wrote for the majority in "Locke v. Davey" (Case No. 02-1315), states that training someone to lead a congregation is an essentially religious endeavor. However, lawyers for former college student Joshua Davey had argued otherwise, and the two dissenting justices in the case, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, agreed with them. But the majority accepted Washington state's argument that it was entitled under its own constitution's ban on financing religious instruction to protect taxpayers' freedom of conscience by prohibiting students from using scholarships to pursue theology degrees.