{"id":567646,"date":"2021-06-18T10:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567646"},"modified":"2021-06-18T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:21:58","slug":"jeffrey-toobin-scotus-decides-christians-dont-have-to-follow-the-laws-that-everyone-else-has-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffrey-toobin-scotus-decides-christians-dont-have-to-follow-the-laws-that-everyone-else-has-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Toobin: SCOTUS Decides Christians \u2018Don\u2019t Have To Follow The Laws That Everyone Else Has To\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjeffrey-toobin-scotus-decides-christians-dont-have-to-follow-the-laws-that-everyone-else-has-to%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567646&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Toobin.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A Supreme Court decision preventing the government from discriminating against religious institutions that place children in foster care has been twisted by media analysts into proof that Catholics \u201cdon\u2019t have to follow the laws that everyone else has to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin also falsely claimed that the ruling means that LGBT people \u201care not able to become foster parents in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/religious-freedom-advocates-celebrate-after-scotus-sides-with-catholic-group-on-gay-couple-foster-parents\">ruled unanimously<\/a> that the city of Philadelphia wrongly excluded Catholic Social Services from a city contract to provide foster care, because the organization will not place children with same-sex couples due to religious convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Social Services, which began serving Philadelphia\u2019s orphans <a href=\"https:\/\/cssphiladelphia.org\/the-history-of-catholic-social-services\/\">in 1797<\/a>, has administered foster care for the city for more than 50 years. But in 2018, city officials moved to cut ties with the organization after discovering that its Catholic faith teaches that children should be raised in a home with a married mother and father.<\/p>\n<p>No same-sex couple ever applied to become a foster parent through the Catholic agency, which would have referred the couple to one of the city\u2019s 29 other foster care agencies that have no such religious concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Although Chief Justice John Roberts ruled in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/19-123_g3bi.pdf\">Fulton v. Philadelphia<\/a> <\/em>that the city violated the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-catholic-agency-same-sex-foster-care-004b978239e41675524859ae79a5333b\">terms<\/a> of its own contract by denying a religious exemption, the legacy media presented the ruling as proof that Catholics had placed themselves above the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is allowing a Catholic foster agency to discriminate against same-sex couples who want to foster through them specifically,\u201d said CNN Justice Correspondent Jessica Schneider on \u201cCNN Newsroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Toobin claimed that the ruling rewarded \u201ca big legal cause of conservatives in America, which is telling religious institutions and religious people that they don\u2019t have to follow the laws that everyone else has to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When others on the panel pointed out that the ruling narrowly focuses on the contract\u2019s terms, Toobin presented the issue as one of Christian, and especially Catholic, organizations quashing the rights of LGBT people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can write these things as narrowly as you want, but the message that is sent by cases like this and by the result in this case, regardless of what the words the Chief Justice used are, is that religious organizations \u2014 and it\u2019s almost always Christians and it\u2019s usually Catholic organizations \u2014 do not have to follow the laws that everybody else has to follow. They can excuse themselves when they have religious objections,\u201d said Toobin, whose personal behavior has not always conformed to Catholic doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a message that is being sent loud and clear,\u201d he continued, \u201cwhether it\u2019s holding religious services during COVID, whether it is fulfilling the requirements to pay for contraception for employees, whether it is baking a cake for a same-sex wedding, is that you can get out of obligations that are imposed on everyone else if you have a religious objection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a controversial notion,\u201d asserted Toobin.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, thanks to the court ruling, \u201cgay people \u2026 are not able to become foster parents in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN host Poppy Harlow corrected him, saying that the decision \u201crelates to this Catholic foster service\u201d and \u201cnot more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I\u2019m glad you pointed that out,\u201d said Toobin, who then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wUnDPJ9bsNM\">equated the LGBT situation with Jim Crow<\/a>. \u201cBut many foster care agencies are affiliated with churches, and so if they have a religious objection to same-sex couples, they can say, \u2018No gay people need apply.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC offered a similarly negative interpretation of the ruling. NBC News correspondent Peter Williams said the \u201cdecision is quite narrow,\u201d because \u201cthe Supreme Court was really trying not to let the decision stand for a wider acceptance of the idea that you can discriminate based on religious freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hill also <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/558925-supreme-court-sides-with-catholic-adoption-agency-that-turned-away\">incorrectly reported<\/a>, \u201cSupreme Court sides with Catholic adoption agency that turned away same-sex couples.\u201d As noted, not a single same-sex individual ever applied to become a foster parent via Catholic Social Services.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.489010989011\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: Supreme Court sides with Catholic adoption agency that turned away same-sex couples <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UgaBGShYBQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/UgaBGShYBQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RSfWbeJA09\">pic.twitter.com\/RSfWbeJA09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1405535894379974666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Religious liberty advocates celebrated the unanimous decision, although it did not tackle the underlying First Amendment issue of religious believers\u2019 ability to live according to the teachings of their faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the pitiful dearth of foster-care agencies in the United States, the Democratic stronghold of Philadelphia excluded a faith-based charity from helping to meet the growing need,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/frc.org\/\">Family Research Council<\/a> President Tony Perkins. \u201cIncreasingly, the Left refuses to tolerate the slightest deviation from their political orthodoxy regardless of who suffers as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Shackelford, president of the First Amendment legal watchdog the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstliberty.org\/\">First Liberty Institute<\/a>, said the court\u2019s decision \u201censured that religious adoption providers can continue their centuries-old work serving families and children without suffering government discrimination, because they believe that the best home for a child includes a mother and father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tremendous victory for religious liberty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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