{"id":103180,"date":"2021-06-17T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103180"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:54:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:54:54","slug":"ct-supreme-court-sides-with-catholic-foster-care-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103180","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Supreme Court Sides with Catholic Foster Care Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/19-123_g3bi.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled decisively<\/a> in favor of a Catholic foster care agency on Thursday, with all nine justices agreeing that the city of Philadelphia violated the First Amendment\u2019s protection of religious liberty when it ended a contract with Catholic Social Services (CSS) over service to&#8230;[prospective adoptees with same-sex parents].<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cIt is plain that the City\u2019s actions have burdened CSS\u2019s religious exercise by putting it to the choice of curtailing its mission or approving relationships inconsistent with its beliefs,\u201d wrote Chief Justice John Roberts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Philadelphia claimed the city could not contract foster care services with a Catholic agency that only served married heterosexual couples because of an antidiscrimination law ensuring that everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, has equal access to public accommodations. The court found, however, that foster parenting is not a \u201cpublic accommodation,\u201d since certification is not available to the public and \u201cbears little resemblance to staying in a hotel, eating at a restaurant, or riding a bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">According to the court, there was also no evidence presented in the record that the Catholic agency\u2019s policies ever prevented a same-sex couple from fostering a child, or that it would have that effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanfocus.org.au\/2021\/06\/01\/scientists-and-theologians-join-forces-for-new-anglican-communion-science-commission\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, all 9 Supreme Court justices agreed that the city of Philadelphia violated the First Amendment\u2019s protection of religious liberty when it ended a contract with Catholic Social Services over service to LGBT people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8euptLFoNz\">https:\/\/t.co\/8euptLFoNz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1405570689722204160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court ruled decisively in favor of a Catholic foster care agency on Thursday, with all nine justices agreeing that the city of Philadelphia violated the First Amendment\u2019s protection of religious liberty when it ended a contract<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103180\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,101,168,114,157,364,146,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religious-freedom-persecution","category-roman-catholic","category-supreme-court","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103185,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103180\/revisions\/103185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}