Dr. Greg, we're pretty excited about a couple of supreme important cases.

They have certainly gotten your attention and we're going to talk about them briefly.

One is adoption and Catholic services that also involve the LGBTQ community.

The other is not having to reveal your donor list if you are a non-profit.

Preliminary remarks on why both of these cases have gotten your attention.

Well I want to make clear to our audience that at reasonable faith we don't dabble in

politics.

We're not making political commentary.

But when political issues impinge upon either ethical or spiritual concerns, then it is

appropriate and I think mandatory for us to speak out.

And both of these supreme court decisions do have those sorts of implications, implications

for the exercise of religious liberty in this country and then also implications for

charitable non-profit organizations like reasonable faith.

And so that's why it's important to draw the attention of our audience to these really

significant supreme court decisions.

The first one, the foster parents that were discussed, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously

in favor of a Catholic agency receiving government funding that argued having to work with

same-sex foster parents violated their religious freedom.

A major but narrow ruling that says Philadelphia's anti-discrimination laws unfairly burdened

the religious agency's first amendment rights.

Yes.

So what the Supreme Court asserted here is that these Catholic adoption agencies are not

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