Ironic, since Thomas is the person who didn't mind having a negative effect on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Supreme Court with his behavior toward women and atheists.
If you actually read his dissent, instead of a hack summary, you would see he thinks they didn't go far enough in constraining the schools. Quite the opposite of what is implied by CNN. But hey, as long as someone holds a dissenting political opinion they aren't human and therefor fair game, right?