Opinion - Belmont Abbey faculty member's view [CN-USA]

[Catholic_Press]

I am one of the faculty members of Belmont Abbey College who filed a charge with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against my employer for removing coverage of birth control from our employee health care plan. I do not see this as a religious issue but rather one of gender discrimination. - David Neipert @ RH Reality Check

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[ALLGIRLS]

Hmmm. I was on BAC’s side in this until I read this. Is it true that they’ve argued that they’re not a a religious institution and accepted government funding? That throws a whole monkey wrench into the whole thing.

On the other hand, this woman is beyond arrogant. “A small minority (less than 10%) of Catholics have a problem with contraception.” News flash, lady: Only ONE Catholic, and his name is Benedict, has to have a “problem” with contraception and a Catholic institution then has every right, no, OBLIGATION, not to cover it in their health plan. The Church isn’t a democracy.
News flash #2: Pregnancy is not a “health problem” like prostate trouble. If the health plan covered condoms and vasectomies, then you’d have an argument.

BAC needs to give all the government money back and proudly define itself as a religious institution.

In Christ,

Ellen

 

[manualman]

Not so fast. She is rather cagey about what “federal money” was sought. Thanks to the ACLU and others who have won many battles over the years trying to make “defacto atheism/agnosticism” the official religion of the USA, a LOT of kinds of things are considered “federal money.” All except the very rich these days need federal financial aid/loans to afford college. Is THAT the federal money they are speaking of?

The feds offer a TON of OUR tax money to universities. Is it fair that only “defacto atheist” universities should be eligible to receive that. If so, then we catholics should demand an utter end to ALL federal aid to colleges and universities to level the playing field.

This argument is a red herring at best, utterly intellectual dishonesty at worst. Tenure my prevent her firing, but they should assign her the office in the leaky basement next to the boiler room!

 

[mdgspencer]

I was excited to see the original post, thinking at first that one of these faculty members had appeared in a post here (though I saw this was not the case) and that I could ask him something. I have wanted to know what these faculty member think of the real possibility that their college will close and they will all lose their jobs because they have taken legal action to force their Catholic employer to chime in with their own views repugnant to the Catholic faith.
If their school closes, it may be that faculty at other Catholic schools will have second thoughts about trying to force their school to fund such things.