Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in case about tax exemptions and religion [View all]
Source: USA TODAY
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on June 5 said Wisconsin should not have denied a tax exemption to a Catholic Charities chapter, the latest in a series of rulings the justices have decided in favor of faith groups.
The court unanimously ruled that the state violated the First Amendment's protection for religion and discriminated against the religious organization in Wisconsin.
"There may be hard calls to make in policing that rule, but this is not one," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.
Wisconsin’s law, which is similar to most states' and the federal government’s, grants exemptions from its unemployment insurance program for certain church-controlled organizations that are “operated primarily for religious purposes.”
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