This post originally appeared at https://wifamilycouncil.org/radio/scotus-hears-arguments-on-government-involvement-in-religion/
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments this past Monday in a case coming to it from the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Last year, the state supreme court agreed with a lower court decision that stripped the unemployment tax exemption status of the Catholic Charities Bureau in Superior. The state Supreme Court’s decision allowed the state an unnecessary voice in the definition of “religious activity.” The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision will set a consequential precedent for the government’s involvement in religion.
Court observers say the US Supreme Court justices seemed to agree that our state high court got this wrong. We’ll see. Allowing the government to interfere in religious activities violates our first amendment rights. The government has no business telling a religious entity what is or is not “religious activity.”
Julaine Appling