Score Another Religious Liberty Supreme Court Win
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an>ven in 2020, some governments—including European ones, like Denmark's—participate in selecting religious leaders and judging theological disputes. America has fortunately chosen a different path. In 1806, a Catholic bishop asked President Thomas Jefferson for appointment advice in leading the Church in the recently purchased Louisiana Territory. James Madison, then secretary of state, responded that the "scrupulous policy of the Constitution in guarding against a political interference with religious affairs," prohibited the president from selecting religious leaders. That is the principle the Supreme Court recently upheld by a vote of seven to two in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru.
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