A win for religious freedom in the face of an American President who prioritizes the far-Left agenda over the rights of Americans.
Let’s also hope that “gender-affirming care” can be stopped for underage kids; it is nothing short of child abuse.
“Transgender Mandate: Court Blocks Biden Mandate Forcing Religious Hospitals to Facilitate Gender Transitions,” by Caroline Downey, National Review, December 9, 2022:
A federal court on Friday blocked a Biden administration mandate that would force religious hospitals and doctors to facilitate gender transitions against their sincerely held moral convictions.
The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to block enforcement of the rule on the grounds that “intrusion upon the Catholic Plaintiffs’ exercise of religion is sufficient to show irreparable harm,” the filing reads.
Catholic nuns, clinics, a university, and hospitals were among the plaintiffs in the case, represented by the Becket Fund. The plaintiffs all provide medical care for transgender patients but refuse to provide gender-transition surgeries because they believe them to be harmful. Their grant of permanent injunctive relief from the lower court was preserved Friday.
Friday’s ruling, which originated in North Dakota, is one of a twin set of cases challenging the Biden mandate. The second, which originated in Texas, was decided in August by the Fifth Circuit court, which also permanently blocked the rule. The plaintiffs in the Texas case included Christian medical associations of thousands of doctors who are now protected from federal encroachment into their practices.
“We now have two different federal court of appeals saying the Biden administration is permanently blocked from forcing religious doctors and hospitals” to perform gender transitions in violation of their conscience, Luke Goodrich, attorney with the Becket Fund, said during a call with reporters….
Alkflaeda says
Excellent news. Now, does he have time to stack the Supreme Court in his favour?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I just hope Justice Thomas lasts beyond 2024
Hank says
Hopefully, the Court coming to its senses will begin the walk up the path of restoring the children to their parents and the parents to their children.
“See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.” Malachi 4:5-6
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Tennessee has done a yeoman’s job in outlawing ‘gender affirming’ surgeries, and allowing people whose parents enabled that to sue them once they become adults. Let’s hope that this is replicated in as many states in the country as possible. Yeah, you’ll have your freakshow exceptions like Caliph-pornia, New York, Colorado, Illinois, et al, but hopefully they’ll be the minority
Cephas H says
A part of me would like to take all these advocates of “gender affirming care”, the disciples of the abominable fraud John Money, and have them publicly executed on the Washington Mall (after due process of law, of course). In previous eras, kids with gender dysphoria tended to grow out of it.
Trangenderism is only an unhealthy mix of individual confusion, the desire of a few wealthy alpha males for more and more jaded kinds of entertainment, and (in male-to-female transgenderism) a desire to mock real women. Re the last, has anyone else noticed that the drag queens they want to read to your kids almost invariably send the message that a woman’s place is in either the brothel or the burlesque stage?
DHZ says
Defending this position in the public arena is going to require some serious gaslighting. I am baffled how so many people easily accept it when elected leaders become authoritarian rulers. Ordering a private entity to do anything at all is equivalent to institutionalized slavery. But it lines up with hating the mere existence of private ownership and allowing people to make a profit.
Keith O says
Perhaps the real doctors out there can start refusing to mutilate children under the rules of the Hippocratic oath.
You know, the part about not doing any harm!!!!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I think they’ve forgotten that since 2020, when they all – throughout the world – just blindly followed Dr Fauci’s recommendations. After pretending that all the vaccines were a one-size-fits-all, w/ no potential side-effects for anybody – no matter what their conditions, I think that thing called ‘Hippocratic Oath’ is a thing of the past!
Alkflaeda says
Maybe it has been replaced by the Hypocritic Oath….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, they probably misunderstood the oath as being an execution of hypocrisy, as opposed to being attributed to a Greek physician named Hippocrates
Alkflaeda says
On the same general topic, the issue highlighted in this petition may warrant highlighting – basically the Scottish Parliament is looking to extend transgender rights and lower the age at which an application can be made for a gender recognition certificate from 18 to 16
https://citizengo.org/en-gb/pt/207293-vote-no-gender-reform-act?
It has actually attracted negative feedback from the UN – it has to be bad to to do that!
James Lincoln says
CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS states:
“Let’s also hope that “gender-affirming care” can be stopped for underage kids; it is nothing short of child abuse.”
Yes, Christine.
This is definitely child abuse.