Various Organizations Asked The Supreme Court To Keep Settled and Vital Nondiscrimination ProtectionsBOSTON—GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, joined by 27 other national, regional and state LGBTQ advocacy organizations, filed a friend-of-the-court brief on August 20 urging the U.S.
Supreme Court not to create a broad Constitutional exemption to nondiscrimination laws that would undermine equal protection guarantees and introduce a dangerous and unworkable scheme into local, state and federal lawmaking.The brief was filed in support of the City of Philadelphia in Fulton v.
City of Philadelphia. In 2018, the city suspended a contract with Catholic Social Services (“CSS”) to provide foster care placement services because the agency refused to.