Posted on 02/23/2022 6:49:50 PM PST by marshmallow
INDIANAPOLIS (WEHT) – Attorney General Todd Rokita is defending religious liberty in a case involving the right of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis to uphold church teachings on same-sex marriage in hiring and firing decisions.
“Our founding fathers guaranteed religious liberty at the very beginning of the Bill of Rights,” Attorney General Rokita said. “That’s no coincidence. Religious liberty is America’s first freedom. Here in Indiana, I will do everything in my power to protect this liberty for Hoosiers.”
Rokita filed an amicus brief on Friday. Amicus brief means that there will be an impartial and voluntary adviser to a court of law in a particular case.
The amicus brief filed by Rokita supports the Archdiocese’s right to require Catholic schools under its authority to enforce a morality clause barring employees from same-sex marriages. A male teacher at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis sued the Archdiocese after getting fired following his marriage to another man.
Courts should not “permit litigation over whether and how the Archdiocese may recognize Catholic schools,” Attorney General Rokita writes in the brief. “The United States has a long tradition of preventing judicial entanglement in religious disputes — entanglement that can only lead to interference with church autonomy.”
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Homosexuals should never be allowed anywhere near children. Firing the homosexual is just common sense.
They shouldn’t hire them to begin with. They’re there to groom children and then file a lawsuit.
Sum-A-Gun! I think I just saw a pig fly by my window.
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