{"id":10534,"date":"2021-02-17T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10534"},"modified":"2021-02-21T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:07:11","slug":"catholic-employers-have-opportunity-for-protection-from-hhs-abortion-and-transgender-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10534","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Employers Have Opportunity for Protection From HHS Abortion and Transgender Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Catholic Benefits Association\u2019s legal victories allow present and future nonprofit and for-profit members to provide employee benefits in line with their well-formed Catholic consciences.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>National Catholic Register<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Jesserer Smith<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Catholic employers that belong to the Catholic Benefits Association, from dioceses to nonprofit and for-profit small businesses, can secure employee benefits free from government mandates that violate their religious beliefs, thanks to a recent legal decision in federal court.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a very unique and comprehensive ruling,\u201d Douglas Wilson, CEO of the Catholic Benefits Association, told the Register. \u201cAnybody who becomes a member of CBA now will be protected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CBA case is part of a set of ongoing legal actions in North Dakota and Texas against the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 mandate, implemented in 2016 and revised in 2020, that required doctors to perform gender-transition surgeries or refer patients for them \u2014 despite objections they would have to the procedure \u2014 and would require insurance coverage for gender-transition surgeries. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/news\/catholic-employers-have-opportunity-for-protection-from-hhs-abortion-and-transgender-mandates\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Benefits Association\u2019s legal victories allow present and future nonprofit and for-profit members to provide employee benefits in line with their well-formed Catholic consciences. National Catholic Register Peter Jesserer Smith Catholic employers that belong to the Catholic Benefits Association, from dioceses to nonprofit and for-profit small businesses, can secure employee benefits free from government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catholic Employers Have Opportunity for Protection From HHS Abortion and Transgender Mandates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,643,9,28],"tags":[4010,3971],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-reconfiguration","category-christianity-catholicism","category-news","category-usa","tag-catholic-benefits-association","tag-transgender-mandate"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Catholic Employers Have Opportunity for Protection From HHS Abortion and Transgender Mandates - 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