{"id":72203,"date":"2026-04-20T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/supreme-court-to-hear-catholic-preschool-case-over-funding-and-lgbtq-rights\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:56:17","slug":"supreme-court-to-hear-catholic-preschool-case-over-funding-and-lgbtq-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/supreme-court-to-hear-catholic-preschool-case-over-funding-and-lgbtq-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court to hear Catholic preschool case over funding and LGBTQ+ rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools say Colorado violated their rights by excluding them from state-funded program over admission policies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">supreme court<\/a> will hear from Catholic preschools that say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/colorado\">Colorado<\/a> violated their religious rights by excluding them from a state-funded program over their admission policies.<\/p>\n<p>The court agreed on Monday to take up the appeal from St Mary Catholic Parish, which is supported by the Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/20\/supreme-court-catholic-preschool-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools say Colorado violated their rights by excluding them from state-funded program over admission policies Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The supreme court will hear from Catholic preschools that say Colorado violated their religious rights by excluding them from a state-funded program over their admission &#8230; <a title=\"Supreme court to hear Catholic preschool case over funding and LGBTQ+ rights\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/supreme-court-to-hear-catholic-preschool-case-over-funding-and-lgbtq-rights\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Supreme court to hear Catholic preschool case over funding and LGBTQ+ rights\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}