Posted on 08/07/2021 9:26:26 PM PDT by ebb tide
The Biden administration’s position on religious freedom grows more and more narrow. In a grim measure of its unwillingness to defend religious freedom, Biden’s Department of Justice last week dropped a lawsuit filed against the University of Vermont Medical Center for allegedly forcing a nurse to assist at an abortion.
When the lawsuit was filed last December, Trump’s Department of Justice accused the hospital of an egregious violation of religious freedom. Eric Dreiband, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the time, called the hospital’s treatment of the nurse “the kind of indecent coercion [that] violates everything this country stands for.”
“Federal law protects health care providers from having to choose between their job and participation in what they sincerely believe is the taking of an innocent human life,” Dreiband said, adding: “Coercing people to perform abortions violates the law, and the U.S. Department of Justice will not stand for this shocking and outrageous attack against the right of all people in this free country to follow their conscience.”
Trump’s Department of Justice argued that the Vermont hospital violated federal laws called the Church Amendments, which “prohibit grantees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from discriminating against health care personnel who ‘refuse[ ] to perform or assist in the performance of [an] abortion on the grounds that his performance or assistance in the performance of the procedure or abortion would be contrary to his religious beliefs or moral convictions.’”
Biden’s decision to abandon this case demonstrates his essential view of religious freedom as an obstacle to the fulfillment of liberalism’s agenda.
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The self inflicted cuts by too many Hierarchs in allowing their services and sanctuaries to be declared “non-essential” by the cult of the Covidians are the most deadly of all.
Religion is an “Essential Service”
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2021/05/30/religion-is-an-essential-service/
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You beat me to it. The biggest threat to religious freedom isn’t the government; it’s weak, feckless religious leaders.
Yeah, well, ole Francis will one day, at the Great White Throne Judgment of the LOST come before His Maker and will pay for his crimes against a Holy God for approving a Baby Butcher and his butchering. Francis should be AFRAID, VERY AFRAID of falling into the Hands of an Angry God!!!
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