2019—A Third Circuit panel rules in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia that the city of Philadelphia lawfully refused to contract with a Catholic provider of foster-care services unless that provider agreed to certify same-sex couples as foster parents. Two years later, a unanimous Supreme Court will rule that the city’s refusal violated the provider’s Free Exercise rights under the First Amendment.
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Ed Whelan holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is a regular contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog.
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