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Is helping people with disabilities a religious act? The core question in a Supreme Court case

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Catholic Charities will try to convince the Supreme Court on Monday that Wisconsin ’s denial violates religious freedoms protected by the First Amendment .

Wisconsin said the work done by the diocese's social ministry arm was primarily secular.

The appeal is one of three religious rights cases the high court is hearing in the next few weeks .

Wisconsin attorney general asks Supreme Court to consider what would happen if state was required to exempt a religiously affiliated hospital that doesn’t base hiring decisions on its religion.

Catholic Charities , which does not operate a hospital, says it prefers to protect employees through the church’s unemployment program.

The Catholic Church accuses Wisconsin of having a peculiar view of what constitutes religious behavior”.

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