Catholic school administrators ask lay applicants whether they’ve had abortions and use abortifacients (according to the Roman Church that includes condoms, the pill, onanism sessions, pulling out/withdrawal method)?
So have to priests qualify for teaching jobs? More stars for the number of secret pedophilic and chroniphilic “assignations?”
The “culture of death”? Really? They should take a look at the statistics for what happens to children born into families that can’t support them, or how women forced to carry an unviable pregnancy to term can die. Poverty, death, those happen when you don’t have comprehensive health care for women.
I hope women are watching things like this closely, because this is what the Republican party and conservatives want for them, a world where they are ostracized and punished if they do things like have a baby out of wedlock or use birth control to avoid pregnancy.
"A lawsuit questioned the city’s 2017 ordinance that bars employers from hiring or firing workers based on whether they have had an abortion, been pregnant outside marriage, or used contraceptives or artificial insemination. Landlords also can’t refuse tenants based on those criteria.
Judge Audrey Fleissig’s ruling said the ordinance violated the First Amendment rights of Catholic elementary schools and Our Lady’s Inn, a home for pregnant homeless women, by requiring them to employ or house people who are not abortion opponents."
I call bull----!
The ordinance in no way discriminates on the basis of political or religious belief.
It merely protects people against discrimination based on past healthcare practice.
This has NOTHING TO DO with the First Amendment.
Welcome to your first taste of Kavanaugh’s Gilead, America.
ETA: And while we’re on the subject…
Let’s just point out that – by definition – the only people who could ever have “had an abortion” or “been pregnant outside marriage” are women.
Allowing this discrimination is – prima facie – allowing discrimination against women.
This ruling is wrong on so many levels it truly beggars description.
It’s the predictable extension of Hobby Lobby that allows people (“corporations are people, my friend”) of the correct religious persuasion to openly discriminate against everybody who doesn’t subscribe to their views. The religious right has weaponized the First Amendment and turned RFRA on its head, views that the new Kavanaugh majority on the Supreme Court will openly embrace.
I am weary of institutions taking tax monies then discriminating against the very citizens that pay them.
And it won’t be long before SCOTUS says religious groups and employers (including those who merely say they’re religious) can not only impose their beliefs on their employees, but they’ll also be able to require employee adherence to those beliefs.
In other words, a few years down the road “religious freedom” will inevitably morph into theocratic tyranny.
Where’s all this balm I keep hearing about?
Oh, right. The Koch Amendment criminalizes sale of balm without a license, and imperial order imposes the death penalty for possession of balm by anyone outside the Trump family.
Kavanaugh hasn’t even been confirmed yet - and the Taliban GOP is feeling its power. I thought I was already at a high disillusionment level for the day. . . . where is this country headed???
So hatred by Catholics is OK.
How surprising to this recovering cathoholic…
Or an employer will claim they are exempt from paying their employees a wage or salery since doing so would provide those employees the means to purchase goods or service deemed sinful.
“…whether they have had an abortion, been pregnant outside marriage, or used contraceptives or artificial insemination.”
That’s discrimination against a broad swath of people. Appeal up the line to the Supreme Court with Kavanaugh in place, and the court will let the fuzzy ruling stand or rule the institutions are within their rights.
Just say goodbye to the Catholic school, the Catholic Church, and other institutions that practice such blatant discrimination. The Catholic Church is dying anyway. Numbers of people who regularly attend church is way down in what was once my very Catholic part of the country.
Having grown up there I can tell you that town is a backward cesspool of 14th century beliefs re: women. So glad I don’t live there anymore, and I live in Texas now!
“Charitable organizations”*
*but only if you believe what we do or convert.
Conservative religious folks are drunk on power. They want men in power dictating morality for people who depend on them in some way or another. It’s absolutely disgusting and infuriating.
I can only hope.
Good luck America
The party of small government wants to be your hall monitor.
Kill them now or die later.
My cat is dying too. At some point in the coming weeks I’ll have to take him to the vet and have him put down.
We should do the same with the catholic church.
St Louis should pass a “victim of priestly molestation anti-discrimination ordinance.”
Wow. Excellent, but nary a joke? It is hard to laugh at, hmm?