Job dilemma working in Healthcare

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It’s not immoral for you to update the form because even assuming that the reason for changing the verbiage is to facilitate immorality (which is not a given, but even if), your cooperation with it is too far removed to be sinful. You are just updating the verbiage on a form - that’s really far away from enabling anyone to commit an evil act (such as invitro by lesbians, etc).

I work in employee benefits and know how annoying it can be though. We deal with domestic partner designations as if it were a normal family structure! And today, as I asked a client to confirm an SSN for a participant, he said matter of factly that the SSN is correct but the member is transsexual that used to go by a male name. 😳 Umm, NOT something I need to read in my email like it’s a normal thing. I too wished I could get another job where I don’t have to deal with this. The most annoying part is not that it happens but that it’s treated as normal. That’s the sad thing about our society, how normalized evil has become, we don’t even see it as such.
 
Pray about it and do what you feel called to do.

Lately I have read here and heard on the radio, several Catholics wringing their hands over the fact that it’s hard to practice their faith because the people around them don’t follow Catholic teaching.

I kind of feel like saying “welcome to reality” because life is a challenge and integrity is a challenge, and it’s not “The World vs. Catholics” it’s tough for people of all manner of different beliefs.

I literally read and hear witches saying the SAME things…how the culture, their jobs, school teachers, etc make it hard for them to do, believe and live their faith.

I’m neither a witch or a Catholic but I have to face challenges as well, and ultimately find my own integrity and live my beliefs. I’ve had to leave jobs due to this. My children were discriminated against due to this. It’s part of being human, not everyone will agree with and support what we believe in. But it also adds value to having and living a faith. If it were easy and automatic and everyone around us moved out of the way to concede to my beliefs it would be as unconscious as breathing or my tummy digesting food.

The fact that it’s a choice, a commitment and I strive to make it a priority is what adds richness and meaning to it. It is a calling and dedication, something worth working for.

Honestly I feel that whining about it, and being angry or insulted that others don’t practice my faith to make it easy for me demeans it. It’s not their job to live my faith. It’s not your job to live my faith or make it easy for me to live mine.

We can call it a dilemma or call it what it is, a choice, an opportunity. Which it is because for now, I don’t live in a place and time where I am likely to be truly persecuted or killed for my faith. Any inconveniences I deal with are minor and help me build strength and character.

I live in a country where Christianity is the predominant faith, yet the one that loudly claims the most persecution, not because they are persecuted, but because they aren’t always accommodated to the extent they’d like to be.

I am very fortunate to be able to practice my faith as I see fit. I am the one who needs to accommodate my life to fit my faith, not the people around me.
 
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The fact that it’s a choice, a commitment and I strive to make it a priority is what adds richness and meaning to it. It is a calling and dedication, something worth working for.
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Bravo. That is the best attitude.
 
I was thinking of a scenario like that.

Birth coaches are often the father. But many times it isn’t. It’s not wrong to have a birth coach that isn’t the dad.
 
He didn’t imply he was uncomfortable, he just described what happened.
 
I wouldn’t leave without having another job lined up. I would start aggressively searching for another job.
 
We have always used the terms “parent or guardian” on forms for the Parish. We need to be kind in our words.

Do make yourself aware of the conscience protection for medical professionals both at the federal and state level.
 
I would respectfully disagree. One does not want a potential employer to call for a reference and be told “they resigned because they were a bigot”. Not that you ARE a bigot, but, some people would use that language.

No need to give a reason, simply “thank you for the experiences. I resign effective blah date.”
 
I think we need to remember that everyone is God’s child, even those who may be in same sex relationships. I too work for a hospital, and there have been some things that cause me to pause, but I see that I must stay in my position as if I were to leave, then there would not be anyone to voice an opinion that might be in the minority. Yes, it might be an uphill battle that I may never win, but I know the Holy Spirit is working through me and if I would give up and quit, well, then my voice would not be here to raise issue with some things.
 
Have to agree. I have seen many times a mom has a sister, mom, or other female friend be their birth coach even though they have a husband.
 
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I read this as a speculation. If this literally and actually happened, then I take back what I said:
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Removing the term “Father” felt demoralizing and demeaning because a gay woman who has been artificially inseminated has decided that the term “father” has too much stigma to it.
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But no one should feel demoralized or demeaned because somebody holds this opinion.
 
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