Bill
Donohue comments on a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of a lesbian
employee of St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Westchester, New York; she
is seeking medical coverage for her spouse:
It is not the Catholic Church that is seeking to impose its agenda on
others, it is homosexual activists who voluntarily join a Catholic
institution and then seek to upend its strictures. Whoever “Jane Roe” is
(why the anonymity?—I thought the closet was taboo), she surely knew
all along what the teachings of Catholicism are, so for her to file suit
seeking to punish the Church for exercising its doctrinal prerogatives
shows intolerance and a contempt for diversity.
Because St. Joseph’s Medical Center is self-insured, it is not bound
by New York State law that recognizes gay marriage; it is therefore
exempt from granting medical benefits to a “married” lesbian. That is
why the attorney for Roe is challenging the constitutionality of the
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal statute.
What made this case possible were the political machinations of the
pro-gay marriage lawmakers in New York State, along with Gov. Cuomo,
President Obama, and the Justice Department. The New York State
officials sought to impose the gay agenda by a) refusing to hold public
hearings on homosexual marriage, and b) refusing to allow the voters to
decide this issue in a referendum (the way most states have). President
Obama is just as devious: though he is sworn to uphold congressional
legislation, he directed his Justice Department not to enforce DOMA; it
was signed into law by President Clinton without controversy in 1996
(only 14 Democratic senators opposed the bill).
So here’s where we’re at. Owing to sleuth, deception, and a wholesale
disregard for the democratic process, the right of a Catholic entity not
to recognize something that nature never ordained—the union of two
people of the same sex as a married couple—has wound up in the courts.