Why is the SCOTUS Ruling about Playgrounds a Big Deal?

Last updated on: June 26, 2017 at 5:33 pm by Mark Meckler

Why is the SCOTUS Ruling about Playgrounds a Big Deal? 2017-06-26T17:33:38-06:00 Mark Meckler

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Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all of the rulings that the Supreme Court hands down on days like today. One case, however, had religious liberty ramifications that could’ve been far reaching in terms of the 1st amendment. Here’s a great video produced by Alliance Defending Freedom about Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer:

National Review’s David French wrote, “While there are many threats to religious liberty, few are more consequential over the long term than the state’s ever-expanding role in private life. If the government is able to vacuum up tax dollars, create programs large and small for public benefit, and then exclude religious individuals or institutions from those programs, it has functionally created two tiers of citizenship. Secular individuals and institutions enjoy full access to the government they fund, while religious individuals and institutions find themselves funding a government that overtly discriminates against them.”

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the church by a wide margin — 7 to 2 — which means that “the principle of religious nondiscrimination in public programs has broad judicial support.” Great news!

h/t National Review

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