Supreme Court may free Catholic charities from paying state unemployment taxes for their employees

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In one line of cases, the justices said churches and religious claimants are entitled to equal state benefits, including grants to pay for playgrounds at a church school or tuition grants for parents to send children to religious schools.
49% : Lawyers for Becket Fund for Religious Liberty appealed and urged the court to overturn the Wisconsin ruling.
49% : A year later, the court ruled that as a matter of religious freedom, Catholic Social Services had a right to participate in a city-sponsored foster care program in Philadelphia and receive payments for doing so, even though it refused to work with same-sex couples as required by the city.
48% : In another line of cases, they ruled religious organizations are freed from government regulation of their employees.
48% : "This case involves severe governmental interference with religious liberty that strikes at the heart of the 1st Amendment's most basic guarantees," they wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief.

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