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Catholic Hospitals Criticized for . . . Being Catholic

Nov 11, 2020John StonestreetReligious FreedomReligious Freedom, Religious Liberty

*John Stonestreet, Radio Host and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.*

The Roma Catholic Church, as many know, opposes artificial birth control and sterilization. So, neither are available at Catholic hospitals. However, for some reason, there is outrage when Catholic health care providers follow Catholic teaching.

For example, a recent Los Angeles Times’ op-ed about a hospital operated by Providence Health Care System complains that the hospital “has increasingly disallowed women’s health services when they involve any form of contraceptive care,” such as IUDs and sterilization.

In an ominous tone, the op-ed notes “the growing influence of Catholic health systems, which now account for one of every six acute care hospital beds in the country.” And, just in case readers aren’t scared enough, the article cites the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett as additional cause for fear.

We should remember that Catholic hospitals care for 5 million patients per year, and the same faith that critics fear is what motivates them to care for the sick in the first place.

Legal Group Defends Church Mistreated by COVID-19 Restrictions

Nov 10, 2020Jerry CoxCOVID-19, Religious Freedom, VideoCOVID-19, Religious Freedom, Religious Liberty, Video

Attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom have filed a petition on behalf of a church in Nevada that was treated unequally by state COVID-19 restrictions.

Watch this video to learn more.

Justices Thomas and Alito Speak Out on Obergefell and Religious Freedom

Oct 8, 2020John StonestreetMarriage, Religious FreedomReligious Freedom, Religious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage

On the first day of its new term, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the Obergefell decision, which mandated same-sex marriage on the nation..

Justices Thomas and Alito, while agreeing with the court’s denial of appeal, issued a remarkable accompanying opinion stating bluntly that Obergefell has had “ruinous consequences for religious liberty.”

Because of Obergefell, wrote the Justices, believers in traditional marriage are easily labeled “bigots, making their religious liberty concerns that much easier to dismiss.”

It’s a conflict putting lives and livelihoods at risk, and it must be addressed.

Or, as Justices Thomas and Alito put it: “By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right [to same-sex marriage] over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment… the Court has created a problem that only it can fix.”

Sounds like a gauntlet has been thrown.