Churches should be leery of asking government benevolences on something that they wouldn’t want to see done for, say, Islam.
Hard cases make bad law.
If there is one ultimate freedom that churches should sacrifice all else for, I’d say it is freedom of speech. Let Caesar do favors only for the world. But let the gospel have as much space as any other talk.
No one’s talking about this being a federalism case where someone is suing in federal court in order to force a state to give them money in violation of state law.