Same-sex marriage law prompts changes in agency's employee benefits

[Janet1983]

I don’t think so. Providing health insurance to employees is not a religious practice.

Catholic Charities has no business policing the bedrooms of its employees. Or some employees, anyways. As others have mentioned, CC is singling out the sin of homosexuality, while turning a blind eye to all the other repeated sins which are lived by its employees. If CC is to be consistent, they should be advocating denying health coverage to couples involving divorced and remarriage etc. But they haven’t done that

Not really. I know of people who lost their job in a Catholic institution (kindergarten, elementary school, parish) because they got a legal divorce and then lived with a partner whom they later legally married. A friend of mine actually only kept her job because she married her boyfriend. The Church should be free to choose whom they employ and use their own criteria for that. If they chose to do an employment test for academic knowledge needed for whatever position they have open or make sure that the lifestyle of the job candidate is in accordance with Church teaching. They should be able to pick whoever is right for the position in all aspects.

 

[CathFaith1]

The laws are not a result of the shift of any norms. When a few lawyers and a few judges create laws out of thin air, that does not mean the other almost 300 million people in the US agree with them. Freedom of religion applies to same sex rights? How so? Homosexuality is religious?

That is called social engineering. It occurred when a handful of people called the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973. In 1973, a non-scientific vote removed Homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. A few judges and lawyers also helped open hundreds of Adult Bookstores and Strip Clubs in the 1970s. The people had nothing to do with it. I was there and no one viewed any of this as some sort of new social norms.

This is another attempt at social engineering.

God bless,
Ed

Exactly.

 

[Joseph_L_Varga]

Not really. I know of people who lost their job in a Catholic institution (kindergarten, elementary school, parish) because they got a legal divorce and then lived with a partner whom they later legally married. A friend of mine actually only kept her job because she married her boyfriend. The Church should be free to choose whom they employ and use their own criteria for that. If they chose to do an employment test for academic knowledge needed for whatever position they have open or make sure that the lifestyle of the job candidate is in accordance with Church teaching. They should be able to pick whoever is right for the position in all aspects.

 

[Joseph_L_Varga]

And if the secular authorities tomorrow decide that it’s perfectly lawful for someone to marry a goat, the Church should reply “We are not going to hire someone who thinks that he/she is married to a goat”.

This is true separation of Church and State.