We don't have to go that far back to see examples. NFL voters twice rejected the Archaic Church Controlled, but Government Funded, public school system in favour of a the type of modern Secular School system that Québec adopted during the Quiet Revolution.

One of the motivations for that NFL transition was the way that whichever cult got to run the school lorded it over the children of other cults, as though they were paying the bill themselves and doing a favour for the children of minority cults in the area, so shut up and be grateful that the nice cult lets you into "their" publicly funded school out of the goodness of their heart.