re: Supreme Court Rules 9-0 for Catholic Foster Moms in Major Religious Freedom Case

I encourage you to read the opinion before calling this some major win. The majority opinion is a meandering mess that basically hinges on a clause in the city’s contract with CSS allowing the city to override, or grant exceptions to, certain agency determinations. This, SCOTUS says, effectively makes the nondiscrimination policy in the contract not a general one, as required per Oregon vs. Smith. Gorsuch’s concurrence explains how the majority sidestepped the central argument of the defense by turning it into a contract issue.

Basically, a city attorney can strike a sentence in 3.21 of the contract and they can then proceed to exclude CSS from receiving contracts.