LETTER: Keep religion in mind when voting in Supreme Court race

To Ozaukee Press:

In 2024, progressive Wisconsin Supreme Court justices stripped Catholic

Charities of long-held Wisconsin unemployment tax status, stating the Catholic Charities weren’t religious enough in their charitable works. In June 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court embarrassed the Wisconsin progressive justices, unanimously finding they had tried to make law, not follow it.  Writing the 9-0 opinion, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor chastised: “There may be hard calls to make in policing that rule, but this is not one.”

This should have ended the argument, but Democratic Party-supported Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said not so fast, I have a work-around.  Kaul asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to resolve the matter by eliminating the faith factor altogether and end the unemployment tax status of all religious charity work in Wisconsin—Christian, Islam, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist etc., not just Catholic Charities.

Late last year, the slow-to-learn progressive Supreme Court justices decided they had enough schooling from the U.S. Supreme Court and ruled against Kaul and his Democratic allies, who have decided it’s their job to oppose every religious activity in Wisconsin, including religious school choice.

The last few years, billionaire cash from California and Illinois have bulldozed Wisconsin elections to bring California values to Wisconsin. This has stacked the Wisconsin Supreme Court with progressive Judges subjecting Wisconsin law to their out-of-state benefactors’ preference, not our Constitution.

In April, Wisconsin voters can resist the slow attacks on religions. Let’s return to Bill Proxmire’s common sense and protect Wisconsin’s schools and churches by electing Maria Lazar to the Supreme Court in April.

Tom Lubner

Grafton