text: The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 this year that
  
   "(a) This Court has repeatedly confirmed that denying a generally available benefit solely on account of religious identity imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion."
  
  "(b) The Department’s policy expressly discriminates against otherwise eligible recipients by disqualifying them from a public benefit solely because of their religious character."
  
  "Here there is no question that Trinity Lutheran was denied a grant simply because of what it is—a church."
  
  " But the exclusion of Trinity Lutheran from a public benefit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution all the same, and cannot stand."
  
  TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH OF COLUMBIA, INC. v. COMER (2017)