Lawsuit: Housing men with women in Catholic nursing homes challenged
Federal prosecutors say the law lacks a religious exemption and could force the nuns to choose between their faith and their license.
- On Thursday, the Justice Department intervened in a lawsuit filed by The Dominican Sisters, backing their constitutional challenge against a New York law requiring long-term care facilities to assign rooms and use pronouns based on gender identity.
- The 2024 LGBTQ Long-Term Care Facility Residents law mandates room assignments by gender identity, which the Sisters argue conflicts with their Catholic faith as they operate Rosary Hill, a 42-bed hospice serving indigent patients.
- Federal prosecutors argue the law violates the Constitution's equal protection clause by granting exceptions for secular clinical judgments while denying similar accommodations for religious objections. The Sisters face imminent fines and license revocation for noncompliance.
- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the intervention warns states they cannot require Americans to abandon religious beliefs, and the Catholic Benefits Association has joined the legal challenge to support the nuns.
- Requiring a person to identify another by a sex other than his God-gifted sex would require acting against central teachings of the Bible, the Sisters argue, as they seek a religious exemption from the state's requirements.
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Justice Dept backs Catholic order's lawsuit challenging New York nursing-home law
The U.S. Department of Justice is moving to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a New York law that requires long-term-care facilities to accommodate residents based on gender identity rather than biological sex, arguing that the state may be unlawfully discriminating against religious organizations.The lawsuit, filed April 6 by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, challenges New York's LGBTQ long-term care facility residents' bill of rights. The …
DOJ Challenges New York Law Forcing Nuns to House Men With Women.
The Justice Department is supporting a lawsuit by Catholic nuns challenging a New York law that forces them to violate their religious beliefs by housing biological men with women.PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Department of Justice (DOJ) is intervening in a lawsuit filed by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, a group of Catholic nuns, challenging a New York law that mandates long-term care facilities to house transgenders based on gender ident…
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catholicworldreport.comJustice Department Joins Catholic Nuns’ Lawsuit Against New York’s Housing Rule
Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne spend time with a resident at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, New York. The lawsuit alleges that New York is violating the sisters’ First Amendment rights to the free exercise of religion and free speech.
Trump administration backs Catholic nuns fighting New York transgender mandate
The Justice Department said it intends to intervene in a lawsuit filed by an order of Catholic nuns fighting a New York law requiring nursing homes to house biological males who identify as female with women.
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