Video: NFL Has New Rules for Players Attending Church, Night Clubs
The NFL reportedly is prohibiting players from attending indoor church services that are above 25% capacity.
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Catholic Hospital Sued for Declining to Perform Transgender Surgery
A Catholic hospital in Maryland is being sued for declining to perform a transgender surgery, according to news outlets.
The hospital reportedly opted not to perform a hysterectomy as part of an apparent sex-reassignment surgery. Now the hospital is being sued.
There are several problems with this case, but here are a couple:
First, Catholic hospitals operate according to the principles and teachings of the Catholic Church — including the Catholic Church’s teachings about abortion, assisted suicide, and gender identity.
It should come as no surprise that a Catholic hospital would decline to participate in sex-reassignment surgeries.
Second, Catholic hospitals generally object to performing major surgeries on healthy patients.
As bioethicist Wesley J. Smith notes,
Catholic moral principles only permit body parts to be removed to treat physical pathology. If the patient’s uterus had been cancerous, the surgery [hysterectomy] would not have been a problem.
Stories like this one underscore why Arkansas needs to strengthen its laws protecting rights of conscience for healthcare workers and hospitals.
Unfortunately the Arkansas Legislature has failed to pass measures protecting healthcare workers’ rights of conscience two legislative sessions in row — once in 2017 and once in 2019.
Conscience protections are very important for healthcare workers and hospitals.
Without them, we could end up with doctors and hospital boards who are not guided by conscience at all.
That’s a very sobering thought.
Virginia Law Requires Christian Business Owners to Violate Their Faith
On July 1, the “Virginia Values Act,” went into effect. The law “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, public and private employment, public accommodations, and access to credit.”
Governor Northam claims the bill ensures that “Virginia is a place where all people are welcome to live, work, visit, and raise a family.” But wedding and adventure photographer Chris Herring worries that promise doesn’t include people of faith like him. While he gladly serves clients of all backgrounds and orientations, he cannot use his talents at events that violate his faith, including same-sex weddings.
Should Herring refuse to photograph gay weddings or even post about them on his own blog site, he’d face catastrophic fines.
With the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom, Herring has filed a pre-enforcement challenge against the state of Virginia, which joins Kentucky, Colorado, Washington and Arizona as states that discriminate against people of faith in the name of non-discrimination.
Copyright 2020 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.