Officials in South Carolina are lobbying the Trump administration to ensure that a conservative Christian foster-care agency doesn’t have to place children with any prospective parents who disagree with its theology.

Although RFRA is still sometimes used for good – like protecting Sikh soldiers barred by Army regulations from serving their country while wearing their articles of faith – it is now too often exploited to justify discrimination and other harms to others.

The city of Philadelphia does not have to contract with religiously affi­li­ated foster-care placement agen­cies that engage in discrim­inatory policies against potential foster parents, Americans United argued in a legal brief filed Oct. 4.