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Catholic Charities: Menace to Society?

ACLU wants church workers to offer abortion, or be barred from assisting refugees on the government dime
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This is very ominous stuff:

Last summer, thousands of children poured across the Southern border of the United States, alone, scared, and desperate to escape violence, conflict, and crushing poverty in their home countries in Central America. This year, a fight is brewing over what happens to migrant children once they’re in the U.S., and whether agencies tasked with caring for them can deny them important health care services.

Last year alone, 68,000 children were caught crossing the border. By law, those children have to be cared for until they’re deported or allowed to stay. While children wait in limbo, their living arrangements can vary from placements in foster homes to jail wings, which means some young people are stuck for weeks — or even months — in lockdown for trying to find a better life.

… Care of these children is subcontracted out by the government to Catholic charities (charities that pull in some $10 million a year in federal funds to run facilities). And, as federal contractors, they’re required to follow federal law, including providing access to a full range of healthcare, from emergency contraception to abortion. A recent lawsuit by the ACLU alleges they might withholding that care and wants to know how widespread the problem might be.

So the ACLU is suing Catholic Charities to compel it to offer abortion to women crossing the border. More:

“Religious freedom is a fundamental right, and we strongly support that right at the ACLU, but that right doesn’t include imposing your beliefs on others to harm them, which is exactly what the bishops are doing here.” said Amiri.

The Catholic bishops cannot and will not allow themselves to be forced into providing abortions. So if the ACLU has its way, Catholic Charities will have to withdraw their care from tens of thousands of migrant children. Such is the compassion of the Social Justice Warriors.

More broadly, this is becoming an issue:

 

Expect to see more of this. It’s all in the logic of SJWs and their left-liberal fellow travelers. In order to make the border a “safe space,” Catholic charity workers who believe that abortion is the taking of a human life must be demonized as violent, and driven a little bit more from the public square.

And so, when the liberal, pro-LGBT Episcopal bishop of Los Angeles chooses to see a 75-year-old Episcopal church building torn down and a condo development built on its spot rather than cede it to a viable, indeed vibrant, orthodox Anglican congregation, it is cheered by a local journalist as a victory over the “homo haters.” Because if the congregation were not dispossessed, hate would win.

Note well. And prepare.

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