'Shouldn’t have picked this fight': 5 reactions to Supreme Court's unanimous Catholic charity ruling
4. Freedom From Religion Foundation
The prominent Wisconsin-based atheist organization, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, called the Supreme Court's ruling "fundamentally wrong."
"Treating religiously affiliated nonprofits the same as all other nonprofits is not a violation of the First Amendment," FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor said in a press release.
FFRF Legal Director Patrick Elliott called the decision "a dramatic expansion of religious exemptions that invites confusion, litigation and further erosion of state/church separation."
FFRF submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in favor of Wisconsin officials, claiming that accepting the charity's arguments "would undermine the very purpose behind Wisconsin's unemployment insurance program" and "strip away numerous regulatory protections from employees at countless other religiously-affiliated nonprofit organizations."
