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Jeffrey Toobin: SCOTUS Decides Christians ‘Don’t Have To Follow The Laws That Everyone Else Has To’

Ben Johnson
Jeffrey Toobin: SCOTUS Decides Christians ‘Don’t Have To Follow The Laws That Everyone Else Has To’
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A Supreme Court decision preventing the government from discriminating against religious institutions that place children in foster care has been twisted by media analysts into proof that Catholics “don’t have to follow the laws that everyone else has to follow.”

CNN’s Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin also falsely claimed that the ruling means that LGBT people “are not able to become foster parents in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.”

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