A New York adoption agency professing Christian religious beliefs stated valid claims for free exercise of religion and free speech over a state mandate to accept same-sex and unmarried couples as prospective adoptive parents or close down, the Second Circuit said in a reversal Tuesday.
New Hope Family Services Inc.'s complaint “easily” gave rise to the slight suspicion of religious animosity necessary for a free-exercise claim at an early stage of the suit, the appeals court said.
And New Hope plausibly alleged that the New York Office of Children and Family Services tried to compel it to speak against its ...
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