US Supreme Court leans toward Catholic preschools' challenge to LGBT protections

Conservative US Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic on Tuesday toward a challenge by Catholic groups to a Colorado law barring anti-LGBT discrimination at publicly funded preschools in a case ​that could further bolster the rights of religious people and institutions.

The court, whose 6-3 conservative majority has taken a broad view of religious liberty, heard arguments in a bid by the Archdiocese ‌of Denver and other Catholic entities for an exemption from a Colorado preschool funding program's nondiscrimination requirement. Republican President Donald Trump's administration backed the Catholic groups in the case.