Americans need to live and let live. Let the LGBTQ activists practice their preferences, and let Christians live the Gospel. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that a Catholic Social Services adoption agency in Philadelphia could continue to place children only with heterosexual couples, consistent with the Gospel’s definition of a family. Though The New York Times depicted the ruling as a setback for gay rights and "evidence that religious groups almost always prevail in the current court," it was far from either. Unfortunately, the ruling settled nothing in the culture war between traditional religion and LGBTQ advocates. Only a technicality managed to hold together the 9-0 majority. The ruling doesn’t guarantee that religious organizations such as Catholic Social Services will be able to practice their mission instead of being shut down. As Justice Samuel Alito wrote in protest, the ruling "might as well be written on the dissolving paper sold in magic shops." For over half a century, CSS placed children in foster and adoptive homes, according to its belief that "marriage is a sacred bond between a man and a woman." No same-sex couple ever asked the agency for help, or CSS would have referred […]
