Sep. 07 (CWNews.com) – The office of Catholic Charities in Albany, New York, is pursuing a lawsuit challenging regulations that require insurance coverage for contraception.
"We’re being forced to pay for something that represents what we teach against and what we think is sinful," said Michael Costello, a lawyer for Catholic Charities.
To date, the suit has been unsuccessful. Two New York courts have ruled that Catholic Charities does not qualify for an exemption from the law because it is not a religious employer. The courts have noted that Catholic Charities hires and serves people of all faiths.
So a institution can only be considered religious if it only serves people of one faith? What a wacky understanding of charity. Funny how Catholic Charities can get attacked for not doing adoptions for same sex couples because that is restrictive attacked for hiring and serving people of multiple faiths at the same time.
You can easily imagine what would happened if they fired all of their non-Catholic employees, that the same court would be involved once again.
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Once again, it is more of an attack on Catholicism. Conform to us (the world) or do not be at all. Sad state of affairs for free exercise of religion.
Whenever I see “Albany” and “Catholic” in the same article
I know I should not even read because it is never anything good. Sep. 07 (CWNews.com) – The office of Catholic Charities in Albany, New York, is pursuing a lawsuit challenging regulations that require insurance coverage for contraception. “We’re being…
Actually, the courts were simply applying the law as written. And the law applies to Catholic Charities, in all likelihood, because the organization is taking government money and did not think about the strings that are attached. So don’t blame the judiciary; blame, if you must, the legislators who write laws with provisions that clash with Catholic doctrine. The Church has done a lousy lobbying job over the years, and with the abuse scandals have lost what influence it may have had on issues of social legislation.
Eliot Spitzer is attorney general of New York, and has his eye on the governorship. He just gave a televised speech in which he spent a good portion of the speech delighting in the fact that he is proud to be endorsed by planned parenthood and naral. He is one of those who went after crisis pregnancy centers for their use of sonogram machines – “practicing medicine w/o a license”. pp and naral can practice all they want, with virtually no restrictions, but heaven forbid we show women what they are choosing to kill.
It may never get as bad, but the creeping coercion of religious bodies to go along with secular immoralities is reminiscent of the slow coercion of religion that went on in Germany in the early 1930’s long before Hiler and the Nazis “took the ball and ran with it.”