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Posted on 06/05/2025 8:20:28 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Wisconsin-based Catholic charity group in a case centered on unemployment tax credits for religious institutions – delivering a victory for faith-based institutions, who had argued the state's decision had violated the religious clauses under the First Amendment.
In a unanimous opinion, justices on the high court agreed that the state had engaged in an "unnecessary entanglement" in attempting to define whether religious groups should be entitled to an otherwise-available tax exemption based on the state’s criteria for religious behavior.
"When the government distinguishes among religions based on theological differences in their provision of services, it imposes a denominational preference that must satisfy the highest level of judicial scrutiny," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, writing for the majority.
"Because Wisconsin has transgressed that principle without the tailoring necessary to survive such scrutiny, the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion."
The Wisconsin Supreme Court had previously ruled that the Catholic Charities group in question was not "operated primarily for religious purposes," since it serve and employs non-Catholics, and does not "attempt to imbue program participants with the Catholic faith."
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Good!
It’s all so devious. Write a law that requires them to hire non-Christians, then deem them not a religious entity because they employed non- Christians.
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The common sense fairy must have paid SCOTUS a visit recently.
“In a unanimous opinion”
Three unanimous decisions in one day? What is going on with SCOTUS?
You have noted the most important point.
This was a a contemplated and planned attack on a Constitutionally Protected Group to deny their Constitutional Rights.
Seems like they all chugged a gallon of common sense.
Catholic Charities doesn't meet even the bare minimum standards for a religious organization -- for the reasons the Wisconsin Supreme Court held:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court had previously ruled that the Catholic Charities group in question was not "operated primarily for religious purposes," since it serves and employs non-Catholics, and does not "attempt to imbue program participants with the Catholic faith."
What the Wisconsin court apparently left out is that Catholic Charities gets something like 65% of its revenues from taxpayers.
Catholic Charities is basically an arm of the government, not a religious organization.
"Supreme Court rules Wisconsin unconstitutionally discriminated against Christian charity"
It's good that Supremes respected constitutionally protected religious expression applied to the states by the 14th Amendment (14A).
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
On the other hand, since Congress has the express constitutional power to make penal laws to discourage the states from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections, consider this. It's questionable if deep state career lawmakers are effectively unconstitutionally delegating their legislative power to judges to deal with such issues instead of risking possibly losing the next election for supporting such laws.
If that was so, Catholic Charities should refund improperly disbursed Taxpayer Fund to the Taxpayers that they came from, and a separate legal action for that misappropriation should occur.
Thanks, Amendment10, Important Information!
Yeah, that’s what I’m wondering? Is this the same Catholic Charities that are “Immigrants R Us”?
How the Catholic Church Became a Champion of Biden’s Open Borders
Laura Ingraham attacks Catholic Charities for helping migrants
Thanks for those links.
Really hard for the Catholic Church to come back from that.
“When the government distinguishes among religions based on theological differences in their provision of services, it imposes a denominational preference that must satisfy the highest level of judicial scrutiny,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, writing for the majority.
Love it. Indeed the entire reason we separate church and state is denominational bias from the government that we saw happen in England centuries ago.
winning.
Between the Pope, and Catholic Charities... I just cannot!
I have been an RC all of my life!
I just refuse to go to Church or support them.
I pray every day.
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