Should a Catholic preschool that bars kids of gay parents get state money?

Erika Nagle loves the preschool at St. Mary Catholic Parish.

When her first two children attended, she shuttled them 40 minutes to the school and back home in Denver-area traffic. But her choice meant she had to forgo the roughly $6,300-per-child assistance that Colorado's universal pre-K program provides parents who send their kids to many other preschools.

Families at St. Mary are not eligible for the financial assistance because the school, like others run by the Denver Archdiocese, does not accept children of gay parents, a policy that violates the pre-K program's antidiscrimination requirements.