U.S. Supreme Court 9, Wisconsin Supreme Court 0

How far astray is the 4-3 liberal Badger State majority? Justice Sotomayor reversed it for a unanimous High Court

WSJ editorial. Excerpts:

"The state jurists had denied a religious tax exemption to a local diocese’s Catholic Charities Bureau (CCB) and associated groups. Their activities were “secular in nature” and didn’t involve teaching the faith or supplying religious materials"

"as Justice Sotomayor writes in her opinion for the unanimous reversal, if a state law treats two religious soup kitchens differently, depending on the amount of prayer and proselytizing before lunch, that’s a violation of the First Amendment. “It is fundamental to our constitutional order that the government maintain ‘neutrality between religion and religion,’” she says. “There may be hard calls to make in policing that rule, but this is not one.”"

"The ruling “looks through a seemingly Protestant lens to deem works of charity worthy of the exemption only if accompanied by proselytizing—a combination forbidden by Catholicism, Judaism, and many other religions.”"