Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Once Again, the Government Challenges Religous Freedom

The Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; and, the authority to regulate abortion is “returned to the people and their elected representatives.
 
Hence, in many states, there are proposals up for consideration BY THE PEOPLE to vote on during this election cycle. Here in Florida, should the PEOPLE approve the Amendment to the State Constitution, changes permitting abortions up to six weeks presently, will move to four months.

Now, the Harris-Biden EEOC has had its rule requiring employers provide a benefit to abortions subject to a nationwide injuction. The judge ruled the EEOC was forcing Catholic employers to violate their Right to Religious Freedom.

According to the Associated Press, Judge Daniel Traynor, of Bismarck, North Dakota, granted a preliminary injunction Monday, ruling that the Catholic Benefits Association and the Diocese of Bismarck were likely to succeed in proving that a final rule adopted by the Equal Employment Opportuniy Commission violated their freedom of religion. The regulations are meant to enforce the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

The judge also barred the EEOC from forcing the diocese and association to comply with harassment regulations meant to safeguard workers, writing “in a manner that would require them to speak or communicate in favor of abortion, fertility treatments, or gender transition when such is contrary to the Catholic faith.

You would think Biden would have remembered that from the Sisters of Charity case,  which claimed that Obamacare forcing the hospitals run by the religious order to provide birth control was in violation of the nuns’ religious freedom, would have been “lesson learned”. But, the Harris-Biden regime is just arrogant. Or stupid.

One more point I would like to make. If employees of the 8,000  hospitals and other medical facilities owned by the Catholic Church disagree with the Church’s position on abortion, well, they are free to find employment elsewhere.

And the government DOES NOT have the right to make anyone violate their Freedom of Religion.






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