
Jonathan Turley: Supreme Court made 'powerful statement' by unanimously siding with Catholic foster agency
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Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley reacted to the Supreme Court's unanimous decision that a Catholic foster agency shouldn't be banned from participating in Philadelphia's foster program, calling it a “major decision for religious rights.”
They saw the ability of the city to make available adoption services without denying religious beliefs and values to these organizations. These Catholic charities play a very significant role in adoption and other services, but there’s a variety of these groups, so the Court is saying we have to find a way to accommodate that. The reason this is so important is that these types of conflicts between anti-discrimination laws and the religious clauses of the Constitution are becoming more common. We just had a resumption of what's called the Masterpiece cake shop case. It went before the Supreme Court involving a baker who didn’t want to do cakes that violate his religious beliefs. Activists have been trying to create another case to challenge him and they've done so, but they may regret that, because he could end up expanding what was a narrow ruling in his favor into something much broader after this decision. WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW BELOW:More Related News