The Ohio law also allows any health care worker or institution with a conscience-based objection to refuse to refer such services to another provider.
At the end of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a trio of orders impacting religious liberty cases: Carson v. Makin, Arlene’s Flowers, Inc. v. Washington, and Mast v. Fillmore County, Minnesota.
Some legislatures across the country are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with bills that would make it more difficult for government officials to curtail in-person religious gatherings during a public health crisis.
A unanimous decision in a case on such a controversial topic was entirely unexpected, but Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the opinion, focused the Court on a specific fact in Fulton v. Philadelphia.
Religious freedom and racial justice are inextricably bound together.