• Brokkr@lemmy.world
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    Determining how care of the children within a state is handled may be the responsibility of the state only (I’m not certain of this). If it is, then this case would be handled by the state supreme court, and would never be seen by the US supreme court.

    The only way I can see this getting out of the state courts is if the prospective foster parents can show that their constitutional rights were infringed. Being a foster parent isn’t a right (you don’t apply for rights), so I don’t see what they could claim.

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      “My we-ligious fweedoms aw being in-fwinged!”

      “… That is the most brilliant legal argument we have ever heard, affirmed.”

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      They’re claiming their first amendment rights are being violated, and their lawyer has previously gotten the Supreme Court to allow a Catholic adoption agency to discriminate against LGBTQ couples.