'The Next Big Religious Freedom Case Just Landed at SCOTUS'

Those are the first words in a tweet thread from Becket attorney Lori Windham, and she's right. This week Becket filed a cert petition in Sharonell Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Fulton is appealing from a Third Circuit Court of Appeals opinion holding that Philadelphia did not violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment when it took punitive actions against Catholic Social Services because, in the words of the cert petition, "as a Catholic agency, CSS cannot provide written endorsements for same-sex couples which contradict its religious teachings on marriage." Philadelphia took this action in spite of the fact that "CSS's beliefs about marriage haven't prevented anyone from fostering."