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Supreme Court unanimously upholds religious liberty over LGBTQ rights -- and nods to a bigger win for conservatives ahead

  • Written by Morgan Marietta, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageThe Supreme Court has tended to side in favor of religious rights.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

It wasn’t a dramatic expansion of religious rights – not yet. But the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of a Catholic adoption agency that had been excluded from Philadelphia’s foster programs for refusing to work with same-sex...

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