The Supreme Court is deciding a big one right now. It’s not just some antitrust squabble over boring stuff. This is St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy.

Yup. A real, live collision between Catholics and the state of Colorado! Let’s do this thing!

In this corner, you’ve got a universal preschool program! Free preschool! For everybody! But…(and there’s always a but) to get your hands on the state’s golden shekels, you have to sign a non-discrimination pledge! You must enroll the kiddies, all the kiddies, regardless of whether Mommy and Daddy happen to be holding hands with someone of the same gender! No discrimination is allowed. None. Zero.

And St. Mary’s in the other corner is having none of it! They look at this decree and they see a direct torpedo aimed right at them. And they should. They say they should be able to run a pre-school that is actually Catholic. They remind the court they have something we like to call religious freedom!

So the case made it all the way to the Supreme Court. Justice Samuel Alito asked to be shown precedents that warrant stripping the Catholic school of its religious beliefs in order to receive funding.

In short, what we’re looking at is someone has to discriminate. The Church gets to believe in things the Catholic Church believes in or the state gets to discriminate against Catholics. Choose.

Amy Coney-Barrett asked an interesting question. She asked to hear from all the pre-school victims of the Catholic pre-school that were harmed because of the Church’s discrimination. Obviously, the other side was a little short on that front.

But wait! Not so fast!

Justice Sonia Sotomayor was not pleased with how this was going. “Your bottom line,” she fires, her voice crackling with pure, unadulterated disbelief, “is your school can reject a child because their parents are homosexual?!” Boom!

And Ketanji Brown Jackson right behind her! Worried about the social fabric! The great American tapestry! How do you keep the whole contraption from flying apart if every true believer with a sincerely held conviction can just wave goodbye to the laws of the land?! How?!

So there they sit. Leaning back in their leather chairs, deciding the fate of religious liberty in this country. Yuuuuge!!!!