I consider the SCOTUS ruling favoring the Catholic Church in New York to be (in Max Boot's words) "pure right-wing judicial activism". And as Linda Greenhouse said in The Times, SCOTUS may now be controlled by a cohort of "grievance conservatives". Grievance conservatives find animus to religion around every corner. They even give speeches at the Federalist Society about it. They see the War on Christmas run amok. In this mindframe, they have created groups of people who no longer want equal treatment; instead they demand special treatment, and this SCOTUS is more than willing to grant it.
A similar thing is happening in their commercial rulings. They have created a special personhood for corporations. Under this philosophy, corporations retain their "personal" immunity that corporateness is granted, but also are given free-speech rights that were never intended for them. So, corporations end up with the best of both worlds and, oddly, now have more rights than individuals. The same is now true for religious groups--at least ones favorable to Alito, Thomas, et al--who now have more rights than their secular counterparts.
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