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TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH OF COLUMBIA, INC. v.

COMER 
THOMAS, J., concurring 
THOMAS, J., concurring in part
 

limited  context  of  support  for  ministerial  training  would
be similarly exempt from exacting review. 

This  Court’s  endorsement  in  Locke  of  even  a  “mil[d]
kind,”  id.,  at  720,  of  discrimination  against  religion  re-
mains troubling.  See generally id., at 726–734 (Scalia, J., 
dissenting).  But  because  the  Court  today  appropriately 
construes  Locke  narrowly,  see  Part  III–B,  ante,  and  be-
cause no party has asked us to reconsider it, I join nearly
all of the Court’s opinion.  I do not, however, join footnote
3,  for  the  reasons  expressed  by  JUSTICE  GORSUCH,  post, 
p. 1 (opinion concurring in part).