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SCOTUS Issues Narrow Decision on Religious Refusal to Support Foster Care by Same-Sex Couples and Declines Opportunity to Create a Broad Right to Discriminate
Many LGBTQ+ advocates feared that the Supreme Court would use the Fulton decision as an opportunity to license discrimination against vulnerable groups on religious bases. Fortunately, the majority decision was narrowly focused on Philadelphia’s contracts with foster care agencies and made no general right for taxpayer-funded foster agencies to discriminate. Today’s decision is an important reminder that the primary responsibility of child services agencies is to help ensure that kids can be in loving homes where they can thrive—including those of LGBTQ families.