It's a spending issue. If the state wanted to allow the funds to apply to theological degress, I don't think they would be prohibited from doing so.
The state is generally allowed to designate how special program money gets spent. If it can earmark a scholarship for X minority group, give special loans to Y types of construction projects, etc., then it can choose to set up a scholarship that will fund studies so long as they aren't religious.
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