After a nearly three-year hiatus from adjudicating a religious liberty case, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on three such cases this spring.
Two of the three cases, scheduled to be heard later in April, respectively deal with whether a Catholic virtual school in Oklahoma can be a charter school and whether Maryland parents can pull their kids out of public-school LGBTQ+ instruction they deem religiously offensive.
How ‘Religious’ Do You Have to Be?
Already heard last week were arguments for a case from Wisconsin in which the justices will decide if a Catholic charity qualifies as a tax-exempt entity. Churches, religious schools, and some religious organizations, of course, qualify by appeal to the religion clauses of the First Amendment for such exemption, but the state supreme court ruled that Catholic Charities of Wisconsin, unlike churches and religious schools, had to pay self-employment tax for its…
