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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe fight over whether religion is a license to discriminate is back before the Supreme Court
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia is likely to deal a severe blow to LGBTQ rights.
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a hugely consequential case that could fundamentally change the rules governing when people with religious objections to a law may ignore that law.
Fulton asks whether religious organizations that contract with Philadelphia to help place foster children in homes have a First Amendment right to discriminate against same-sex couples. It is also the first case the Supreme Court will hear where a religious group claims the right to violate a ban on discrimination since Justice Brett Kavanaughs confirmation gave reliably conservative Republicans a majority on the Supreme Court.
The plaintiffs in Fulton include Catholic Social Services (CSS), an organization that used to contract with the city to help find foster placements for children but that effectively lost that contract after it refused to comply with the ban on discrimination. CSS claims it has a First Amendment right to continue to do business with the city even if it refuses to comply with the citys anti-discrimination rules.
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/25/21150692/supreme-court-religion-discrimination-lgbtq-foster-fulton-philadelphia-first-amendment
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(14,690 posts)safeinOhio
(32,720 posts)can of worms. No divorced and remarried, tats of crosses and more? I can find lots of OT rules not to break.
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(70,741 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)reflecting their religious beliefs (by the US Supreme Court), and the rest of us, who will not tolerate that discrimination, refuse to deal with religious groups who practice the discrimination?
You can bet that WE will not be allowed to "discriminate" based on our strongly held beliefs.
Yet they will be able to.
We must bypass them. Don't go through a religious organization to foster a child.
No matter what you are doing, do NOT go through an organization that allows discrimination.
If you can't, then don't do it. They are only hurting themselves, and those they are professing to help.
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