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This does not apply in the same way, it seems to me, in the Massachusetts case, since a food service job (except in an Orthodox Jewish or Islamic school) could not reasonably be considered to involve upholding religious teachings.

So a religious organization should be forced to hire pedophiles and sodomites as long as they are not "teaching" the children? Food service is a perfect job for a sodomite to gain influence with children. Any and every worker in a religious organization surely should be judged by the content of their character no matter where they "serve" in that organization!

I noticed that, too. I think the author is thinking of the Hosanna-Tabor case, in which the Lutheran school said that their teachers had a "ministerial" relationship to the school, and thus they were justified in requiring adherence to their faith and morals.

So, does that apply to food service workers?

It's a little more ambiguous, but I'd say yes. Simply on the grounds that the Church-related employer has the right to define what they consider to be ministerial. The government is simply not in a position to make that definition.

So if the Church-related school says "We say that ALL our employees are part of our ministry" -- then that's the way it is, becase they have the say-so.