The Supreme Court this week took one small step for religious freedom. Unfortunately, it failed to take the giant leap needed to fully protect religious practice. In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia , the court considered the plight of the Catholic church, which has served Philadelphia’s needy children in various ways since the late 1700s. For more than a century, Catholic Social Services has contracted with the city to connect children in need of a home with loving foster parents. In 2018, the city suddenly terminated Catholic Social Services’s contract because it discovered that the agency, in following Catholic church teaching on marriage, would not place children with same-sex couples. The city claimed that this violated both the required foster care contract and a city ordinance regarding discrimination. Had there been a complaint about Catholic Social Services’s services? No. In fact, not a single same-sex couple had even approached Catholic Social Services to be foster parents. Instead, a newspaper story triggered a City Council investigation, and the politically correct snowball rolled downhill. The City Council employed a tired leftist trope, denouncing "discrimination that occurs under the guise of religion freedom," and the commissioner of human services told Catholic Social […]
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