Supposedly tolerant liberals have yet again chosen to discriminate against Christians.
This time, it’s the University of California Board of Regents, who are targeting Catholic hospitals.
According to The Daily Bruin, UCLA’s campus newspaper, the board voted to sever ties “with hospitals and healthcare institutions that do not follow the University’s non-discriminatory policy.” The change takes effect in 2023.
The issue is that Catholic healthcare providers subscribe to a set of Church-approved guidelines that “prohibit abortion, euthanasia, contraception, assisted suicide and gender-affirming procedures,” the Daily Bruin noted. “These are considered by many to be discriminatory against women and LGBTQ+ individuals.”
Yes, some may see that.
But devout Catholics see their doctrine as divinely inspired, reflective of God’s laws, and in keeping with the First Amendment’s protections of religious freedom.
The Daily Bruin further reported that since last year the left-wing assault on the university’s ties to the Catholic institutions came from forces beyond the Regents.
Last year 27 California Democrats in Congress wrote a letter to system officials saying they found “alarming” such “arrangements that subject them [patients and providers] to religious rules that hold that basic reproductive health care is impermissible, and that directly exclude LGBTQ patients.”
Moreover, 2,500 faculty members and 64 percent of respondents during a public comment period on the change opposed “discriminatory religious directives.”
So the Regents’ answer was its own religiously bigoted discrimination to echo the noise of the UC Health System’s detractors – no matter whom it hurts.
In a long statement opposing the outcome, the Alliance of Catholic Health Care cited a UC system report that said, “A policy of disengagement would undermine our mission and weaken our health care infrastructure, and not one patient would be better served as a result.”
The Alliance’s statement added that the poor would be hurt most by this decision.
“All across California, Catholic health care providers are partnering with others like UC Health to deliver care to patients that other providers don’t or won’t serve, with services other providers don’t or won’t offer, in parts of the state where other providers don’t or won’t have a presence,” the Alliance said.
“Dissolving these partnerships would disenfranchise health care access for millions of health inequity-impacted Californians, doing an enormous disservice to our state’s goal of expanding health care access for the underserved.”
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