Midwest Chick's Place

You may remember the nuns in New York who have run a hospice for those with no family for over 100 years and their fight against the state who wants to force them to put mentally ill people who ‘identify’ as the opposite sex, in with biological men and women, regardless of the religious beliefs of the nuns.

Well, the DoJ is stepping in now. Mainly because the law allows for medical reasons to not do this and disallows religious beliefs.

The United States’ Complaint-in-Intervention alleges that New York Public Health Law § 2803-c-2 violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause by requiring religious facilities to meet requirements that violate religious beliefs, while excusing non-religious facilities from those same requirements.

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New York’s law permits facilities to refuse opposite-sex room assignments based on secular clinical judgments — that the assignment would cause psychological harm to a roommate — but offers no equivalent accommodation based on a religious judgment that the assignment would cause spiritual harm.

I find this interesting because the state of New York is still fighting to put men in women’s prisons. Which would trap women in a cell with men, who are generally sex offenders and are much larger and stronger than the women. I’d say that’s the ultimate in psychological harm–threats of beatings and rapes.

I certainly am on the side of the nuns in their fight and hope that they ultimately prevail.