How much will the Supreme Court favor religions?

Washington Post - Religion is on a winning streak at the Supreme Court — and faith-based advocates are pushing to extend it in coming months, hoping to cement a shift in American life that could be one of the current court’s biggest legacies.

The justices are poised to decide in their new term whether a Catholic school that does not accept the children of gay parents can participate in a Colorado prekindergarten program. It is likely to hear arguments on whether the Ten Commandments can be posted in public schools. And it may take a case from Amish parents seeking an exemption from New York’s vaccine mandate for their school-age children.

Over the past five years, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of expanding the rights of religious groups in nearly every case that has come before it, according to a data analysis conducted for The Washington Post. Since the 2020 term, the court has sided with those groups in seven of those eight cases.

This term’s cases may test how far the court is willing to go in remaking the wall between church and state in America. Recent victories for religious-rights organizations, along with a slew of earlier decisions by the court led by John G. Roberts Jr., already have greatly expanded the presence of religion in public life.