President Biden’s controversial transgender mandate has been blocked after the administration failed to meet last week’s deadline to appeal a court ruling that struck down the mandate earlier this year.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the mandate Aug. 26, ruling that religious groups could not be required to perform procedures that violate their beliefs. The deadline for the Biden administration to appeal the decision passed Nov. 25.
“The final demise of this unconscionable mandate is a major victory for conscience rights and compassionate medical care in America,” Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel for Becket Law, told Catholic News Agency.
“Thousands of doctors will be able to do their jobs without the government requiring them to perform harmful, irreversible procedures against their conscience and medical expertise,” Goodrich added.
Becket, a religious liberty nonprofit legal firm, served as counsel to thousands of Catholic and other religious medical professionals in a federal lawsuit — Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra — challenging the mandate in a continuation of a long legal battle stemming from a similar rule enacted by the Obama administration in 2016.
Religious medical groups including Franciscan Alliance, Christian Medical and Dental Society, and Specialty Physicians of Illinois fought to to stop the requirement from taking effect.
Goodrich applauded the decision on Twitter Monday, adding that “the Admin has declined to appeal to #SCOTUS — meaning this win is FINAL.”
According to Goodrich, the fight will continue in a similar case pending in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is expected to issue a decision in the coming weeks.
If finalized, Biden’s rule would have empowered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to force hospitals and doctors to perform gender-transition surgeries, in addition to expanding the Obama-era version of the rule to include abortion….
The above comes from a Nov. 29 Catholic News Agency story via Catholic World Report.
Please tell me how biden qualifies as catholic?
Francis told him he was a good Catholic. That’s how he qualifies.
Baptism
Affirmative…not unreasonable to presume there are baptized persons in Hell.
“President Biden’s controversial transgender mandate has been blocked after the administration failed to meet last week’s deadline to appeal a court ruling that struck down the mandate earlier this year.” Joe Biden has trashed Catholic ethics with impunity until now. It seems that it took the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and not the Magisterium, to tell Joe to behave himself, and also to make this counsel stick. Imagine the destructive effects of Biden’s transgender mandate had the court not spoken. Until the specter of excommunication looms as a certain outcome of such evil mandates, it will have to be the courts to control such unruly Catholyc politicians.
Deo gratias — thanks be to God.
Today’s gospel (Mt. 7) says it all:
“ Jesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who DOES the will of my Father in heaven. … Everyone who listens to these words of mine but DOES NOT ACT on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand.”