A state-funded adoption agency has refused to permit an adoption by Jewish parents on the basis that it would violate the Christian religious beliefs of the people who run the agency. By Tennessee law, this is a valid argument.
Whoops! This is a classic example of a state assuming that the fundamental disagreement in society is between the supposed religion of “secular humanism” and all traditionally religious people, not between the various types of traditional religions. The result is a classic, and highly embarrassing, episode of anti-Semitism.
Let’s hope this case winds up in the US Supreme Court. I can’t wait to see how our doggedly Catholic right-wing justices would deal with it.