THE SUPREME COURT MADE TWO DECISIONS REGARDING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM YESTERDAY

Winchester, VA – Yesterday was an important day for the cause of religious freedom at the Supreme Court. First, the court said it would take up in the fall a case in which a Colorado Christian baker was punished for having refused to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding. Second, the St. Louis Post Dispach reports that by a margin of 7-2, the court voted to overturn the decisions of lower courts which declared that religious organizations were not eligible to receive grant money from the taxpayers of Missouri. Trinity Lutheran Church had applied for a grant to add rubber scrap to the playground at their church. They were told that they could not receive it because they were a religious institution. Dissenting from the opinion were Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, who said the court was leading the nation “to a place where separation of church and state is a constitutional slogan, not a constitutional commitment.”

But…it’s not in the constitution.