LGBTQ Win for Billard: For Now or For Ever?
I hope this ruling stands for now and forever.
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I hope this ruling stands for now and forever.
“Today’s decision is one of the first applications of the Supreme Court’s ban on sex discrimination to employees of private religious schools.”
An Indiana court has dismissed a fired church worker’s lawsuit against the archdiocese that pursued his termination over his same-gender marriage, though the reasons for the dismissal are unclear. Meanwhile, the discrimination lawsuits of two fire church workers in that archdiocese have been allowed to proceed.
A federal court in North Dakota has ruled that certain Catholic healthcare providers and organizations can refuse to perform gender-confirming procedures, and also may deny insurance coverage for gender-confirming healthcare to church employees.
The U.S. bishops have voiced their opposition to a new executive order signed by President Joe Biden to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination.
The U.S. Supreme Court is again capturing the nation’s political attention with the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the struggle over her replacement now already playing out. But this transition is only the latest significant moment involving the court and LGBTQ equality this year, particularly in the areas of employment law and religious liberty.
Catholics have continued to grapple with the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the combined cases of Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel last month.
Fr. Daniel P. Horan, OFM, writes in the National Catholic Reporter: “The time is long overdue to reject specious arguments like those that undergird the right-wing political and ecclesial agendas promoting the boogeyman of ‘gender ideology.’”
The ministerial exception allows Catholic institutions to treat its employees in ways that civil society has deemed immoral and illegal.
The current situation has taught me that true faith and hope are the assurance that God’s loving hand is ultimately going to bring us where we should go . . .